Metadata from Accession 7179

Experiment name:        Peru Currents Study
Principal Investigator: R.L.Smith
Affiliation:            OSU
Mooring name:           5 deg S Slope
Mooring position:        5.085 deg S,  81.560 deg W
Instrument depth:       115  meters
Seafloor depth:         1598 meters
Times:                  2005 11 Feb 1983 to 1105 20 Nov 1983
Time increment:         60 minutes
Instrument type:        Aanderaa RCM4/5


  parameter          min     mean      max    stddev    days

speed (cm/sec)       1.56    16.28    45.55    9.37    187.17
dir (deg true)       0.00   171.35   359.10   77.00    187.17
u (cm/sec)         -23.00     2.05    30.50    6.47    187.17
v (cm/sec)         -45.10    -9.51    37.00   14.70    187.17
temp (deg C)        11.55    16.15    21.40    1.28    281.67
pressure (db)      115.50   124.04   235.40   11.07    281.67


Speed and direction end early at line 4492 (2305 17 Aug 1983).

The temperature sensor reached its upper bound (21.4 deg)
several times on 28 and 29 March 1983.

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