Metadata from Accession 3242

Principal Investigator: not available
PI's affiliation:       WHOI
Mooring Name:           WHOI 802
Mooring position:       38.982 deg N,  164.967 deg E
Instrument depth:       4004 meters
Seafloor depth:         5353 meters
Times:                  starts 29 Nov 1983, ends 04 Oct 1984
Time increment:         60 minutes
Instrument type:        Geodyne model 850


  parameter         min     mean      max       sd     days

speed (cm/sec)      1.23     3.66    11.39     1.75    310.0
dir (deg true)      0.64   206.69   359.68    82.97    310.0
u (cm/sec)        -10.63    -1.53     9.31     2.98    310.0
v (cm/sec)         -8.93    -0.83     6.29     2.12    310.0
temp (deg C)        1.44     1.46     1.48     0.01    310.0


Speeds at or below the current meter's threshold have been set
to the threshold value, which appears to lie between 1.79 cm/sec
and 1.80 cm/sec. If we take 1.795 as the threshold, approximately
25% of this record's speeds were at or below the threshold. 

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