Experiment name: AWI Antarctic moorings Principal Investigator: E.Fahrbach Affiliation: Alfred Wegener Inst. Mooring name: FR-2 Mooring position: 75.038 deg S, 33.520 deg W Instrument depth: 191 meters Seafloor depth: 574 meters Times: 0000 03 Feb 1995 to 2000 11 May 1997 Time increment: 120 minutes Instrument type: Aanderaa RCM parameter min mean max stddev days speed (cm/sec) 0.55 9.66 43.24 5.17 828.92 dir (deg true) 0.29 147.65 359.93 96.31 828.92 u (cm/sec) -29.34 2.98 37.64 7.26 828.92 v (cm/sec) -38.81 -0.28 34.71 7.63 828.92 temp (deg C) -1.95 -1.78 -0.05 0.13 828.92 salinity (psu) 33.97 34.47 34.83 0.21 828.92 This instrument's pressure sensor drifted to lower pressures during the deployment, from about 230 db initially to about 190 db when the mooring was recovered. Since the pressure series from the mext deeper instrument on the mooring shows no such decrease, it is apparent that the sensor malfunctioned. The pressure series has not been included with this file. Note that salinity, which is calculated from conductivity, temperature, and pressure may have been affected by the bad pressure values. We do not know whether the effect is large or small, so we have allowed salinity to remain in the file. Use the salinity values with caution.
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