Experiment name: AWI Antarctic moorings Principal Investigator: E.Fahrbach Affiliation: Alfred Wegener Inst. Mooring name: FR-6 Mooring position: 74.702 deg S, 60.847 deg W Instrument depth: 261 meters Seafloor depth: 612 meters Times: 1400 16 Feb 1995 to 1000 12 May 1997 Time increment: 120 minutes Instrument type: Aanderaa RCM parameter min mean max stddev days speed (cm/sec) 1.49 14.50 61.09 8.72 815.92 dir (deg true) 0.00 198.24 359.61 107.37 815.92 u (cm/sec) -41.64 -5.84 31.89 9.49 815.92 v (cm/sec) -47.75 -1.17 36.15 12.68 815.92 temp (deg C) -2.15 -1.96 -1.88 0.03 815.92 salinity (psu) 34.60 34.86 35.09 0.06 815.92 As with a number of other instruments in this mooring array, values registered by the pressure sensor drifted lower during the experiment, from about 405 db initially to about 200 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, may or may not have been affected by the bad pressure values. (We do not know whether the bad pressures or some other estimated pressure was used to compute salinity.) Salinity remains in the file, but use it with caution.
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