Experiment name: AnSlope 2004-05 Principal Investigator: A.L.Gordon/A.Orsi/R.D.Pillsbury Affiliation: LDEO/TAMU/OSU Mooring name: M-5 Mooring position: 71.907 deg S, 172.922 deg E Instrument depth: 449 meters Seafloor depth: 1749 meters Times: 0630 09 Mar 2004 to 0530 03 Feb 2005 Time increment: 30 minutes Instrument type: Aanderaa RCM8s parameter min mean max stddev days speed (cm/sec) 0.92 21.11 84.06 14.03 330.98 dir (deg true) 0.11 177.76 359.83 104.78 330.98 u (cm/sec) -61.41 -4.87 62.14 16.32 330.98 v (cm/sec) -59.62 -0.83 65.94 18.76 330.98 temp (deg C) -1.23 1.07 1.30 0.12 330.98 pressure (db) 449.30 469.50 721.10 30.67 330.98 The depth of this instrument appears to have increased by about 7 meters after 6 Jan 05. The same increase can be seen in records from other instruments on this mooring that carried pressure sensors. There are also indications that the depth decreased by a few meters during the initial several days; but this could be due to line stretch.
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