Principal Investigator: J.Church PI's affiliation: CSIRO Mooring Name: Tas924 Mooring position: 30.118 deg S, 153.647 deg E Instrument depth: 650 meters Seafloor depth: 2050 meters Times: starts 27 Sep 1992, ends 03 Nov 1993 Time increment: 60 minutes Instrument type: Aanderaa Meter RCM5 parameter min mean max sd days speed (cm/sec) 1.49 11.77 54.60 8.75 401.1 dir (deg true) 0.00 180.64 359.14 95.28 401.1 u (cm/sec) -49.88 -3.46 27.29 11.64 401.1 v (cm/sec) -33.10 -1.69 30.87 8.05 401.1 temp (deg C) 5.41 6.68 8.47 0.39 401.1 pressure (db) 790.00 832.04 951.00 12.87 401.1 The minimum pressure recorded by this instrument corresponds to a depth of about 780m, rather than the given depth of 650m. Note that the pressure record from Accession 2093, which is from a current meter that was on the same mooring, also indicates that the depth was greater than the given depth - by about the same amount.
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