Metadata from Accession 4644

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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