Experiment name: AWI Antarctic moorings Principal Investigator: E.Fahrbach Affiliation: Alfred Wegener Inst. Mooring name: FR-3 Mooring position: 76.998 deg S, 48.975 deg W Instrument depth: 203 meters Seafloor depth: 259 meters Times: 0000 26 Jan 1995 to 0800 12 May 1997 Time increment: 120 minutes Instrument type: Aanderaa RCM parameter min mean max stddev days speed (cm/sec) 0.55 12.69 43.24 6.81 837.42 dir (deg true) 0.00 176.50 359.63 106.01 837.42 u (cm/sec) -41.90 -1.73 42.39 12.10 837.42 v (cm/sec) -26.47 1.05 25.00 7.55 837.42 temp (deg C) -2.04 -1.93 -1.86 0.03 837.42 salinity (psu) 33.22 34.47 34.78 0.39 837.42 As with a number of other instruments in this mooring array, values registered by the pressure sensor drifted lower during the experiment, from about 225 db initially to about 100 db. We have identified this as a sensor failure and have not included pressure in this file. The computed salinity, which depends on conductivity, pressure, and temperature, remains close to 34.7 PSU for most of the deployment, but drifts lower (by about 1.5 PSU) near the end. The salinity drift is not in phase with the pressure drift and may be real.
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