Principal Investigator: W.D.Nowlin, R.D.Pillsbury, B.Warren, T.Whitworth PI's affiliation: OSU, TAMU, WHOI Mooring Name: Kiwi 11 Mooring position: 32.471 deg S, 174.560 deg W Instrument depth: 3965 meters Seafloor depth: 5718 meters Times: starts 09 Feb 1991, ends 01 Dec 1992 Time increment: 30 minutes Instrument type: Aanderaa RCM8 parameter min mean max sd days speed (cm/sec) 0.93 3.94 13.45 2.18 660.3 dir (deg true) 0.00 134.73 358.99 120.87 660.3 u (cm/sec) -7.55 1.57 12.29 2.71 660.3 v (cm/sec) -6.59 1.96 13.10 2.57 660.3 temp (deg C) 1.11 1.21 1.32 0.03 660.3 Approximately 22% of the speeds in this record were at or below the current meter's threshold (1.86 cm/sec). They have been set to half the threshold value. Three episodes of low or below-threshold speeds are particularly noted: 16 Apr through 29 Apr 91, 3 May through 20 May 91, and 25 Nov through 27 Nov 91.
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