Metadata from Accession 5448

Experiment name:        Vents 97
Principal Investigator: unavailable
Affiliation:            PMEL
Mooring name:           97V101
Mooring position:       44.681 deg N, 130.358 deg W
Instrument depth:       2102 meters
Seafloor depth:         2214 meters
Times:                  2000 28 Sep 1997 to 2300 31 Jul 1998
Time increment:         60 minutes
Instrument type:        Aanderaa RCM


  parameter          min     mean      max    stddev    days

speed (cm/sec)       0.00     4.82    17.49    2.87    306.17
dir (deg true)       0.00   182.05   359.93  103.12    306.17
u (cm/sec)         -11.33     0.04    15.46    3.46    306.17
v (cm/sec)         -13.94    -0.84    13.93    4.33    306.17
temp (deg C)         1.83     1.88     1.91    0.01    306.17
pressure (db)     2132.60  2133.26  2136.50    1.43    306.17


The direction series is unusually jumpy. Certain directions
(0, 180, directions near 360) appear more often than they should.
(The latter anomaly is common in the VENTS files.)

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