Principal Investigator: J.Church PI's affiliation: CSIRO Mooring Name: Tas924 Mooring position: 30.118 deg S, 153.647 deg E Instrument depth: 1500 meters Seafloor depth: 2050 meters Times: starts 28 Sep 1992, ends 17 Oct 1993 Time increment: 60 minutes Instrument type: Aanderaa RCM5 parameter min mean max sd days speed (cm/sec) 1.09 5.88 24.60 3.73 384.6 dir (deg true) 0.05 169.09 359.02 96.36 384.6 u (cm/sec) -21.49 0.20 22.12 5.77 384.6 v (cm/sec) -13.99 -0.04 17.53 3.90 384.6 temp (deg C) 2.41 2.66 2.93 0.08 384.6 pressure (db) 1641.00 1659.88 1690.00 4.12 384.6 The minimum pressure recorded by this instrument corresponds to a depth of about 1620m, rather than the given depth of 1500m. Note that the pressure record from Accession 2091, 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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