Experiment name: AnSlope 2003-04 Principal Investigator: A.L.Gordon/A.Orsi/R.D.Pillsbury Affiliation: LDEO/TAMU/OSU Mooring name: Central D-1 Mooring position: 71.981 deg S, 173.191 deg E Instrument depth: 508 meters Seafloor depth: 1118 meters Times: 2100 02 Mar 2003 to 2330 27 Feb 2004 Time increment: 30 minutes Instrument type: Aanderaa RCM8s parameter min mean max stddev days speed (cm/sec) 0.92 28.44 147.12 22.81 362.13 dir (deg true) 0.23 239.63 359.85 60.64 362.13 u (cm/sec) -137.50 -21.64 47.60 23.39 362.13 v (cm/sec) -78.02 -4.08 116.32 17.23 362.13 temp (deg C) -0.34 1.00 1.30 0.17 362.13 pressure (db) 512.10 545.85 728.80 50.38 362.13 The pressure record contains numerous short episodes where pressure appears to have exceeded the sensor's maximum (i.e., where pressure went offscale at the upper end of the sensor's range). The pressure maxima coincide with speed maxima. In addition the pressure record is increasingly noisy after mid-January 2004. This appears to be a sensor error.
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