Experiment name: SCM2 Principal Investigator: E.Fahrbach PI's affiliation: Alfred Wegener Inst. Mooring Name: WS2 Mooring position: 64.917 deg S, 2.543 deg W Instrument depth: 648 meters Seafloor depth: 5053 meters Times: starts 05 Jan 1987, ends 18 Jan 1988 Time increment: 60 minutes Instrument type: Aanderaa RCM parameter min mean max sd days speed (cm/sec) 0.00 5.52 16.96 3.95 378.4 dir (deg true) 0.30 223.54 359.90 118.58 378.4 u (cm/sec) -14.98 -2.45 9.43 4.80 378.4 v (cm/sec) -8.37 2.62 14.60 3.18 378.4 temp (deg C) 0.48 0.72 1.06 0.11 378.4 salinity (psu) 33.86 34.12 34.35 0.07 378.4 This record is quite problemmatic. First, there are several speed dropouts (episodes where the current meter's rotor counter appears to have failed) most notably during 5 Jan 87, 4 and 5 Mar 87, 19 - 21 Apr 87, and 8 Aug 87. Second, there are linear interpolations in speed and direction during 6 and 7 Mar 87, 9 Jul 87, and 18 Jul 87. Third, in many places the direction series is unusually smooth and may have been smoothed to clean it up. There is a gap in speed and direction in lines 4151 through 4342 (26 Jun 87 - 4 Jul 87). Approximately 18% of the speeds in this record are zero.
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