Metadata from Accession 889

Principal Investigator: W.D.Nowlin, R.D.Pillsbury, B.Warren, T.Whitworth
PI's affiliation:       OSU, TAMU, WHOI
Mooring Name:           Kiwi 16
Mooring position:       32.502 deg S,  171.045 deg W
Instrument depth:       3980 meters
Seafloor depth:         5697 meters
Times:                  starts 08 Feb 1991, ends 25 Nov 1992
Time increment:         30 minutes
Instrument type:        Aanderaa RCM8


  parameter         min     mean      max       sd     days

speed (cm/sec)      0.93     3.61    13.74     2.16    656.1
dir (deg true)      0.00   149.00   358.99    88.20    656.1
u (cm/sec)         -8.33     1.52    12.56     2.60    656.1
v (cm/sec)        -11.77    -0.96     8.57     2.77    656.1
temp (deg C)        1.19     1.25     1.32     0.02    216.9


Approximately 26% 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.

Only the first 217 days of the temperature series are available.

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