Experiment name: SCM2 Principal Investigator: E.Fahrbach Affiliation: Alfred Wegener Inst. Mooring name: AWI233-3 Mooring position: 69.398 deg S, 0.011 deg W Instrument depth: 248 meters Seafloor depth: 2850 meters Times: 2200 29 Apr 1998 to 0400 20 Jan 1999 Time increment: 120 minutes Instrument type: Aanderaa RCM parameter min mean max stddev days speed (cm/sec) 0.19 12.63 35.62 7.24 265.33 dir (deg true) 0.50 275.97 359.90 50.49 265.33 u (cm/sec) -35.54 -11.47 11.92 7.49 265.33 v (cm/sec) -15.75 2.41 26.11 4.30 265.33 temp (deg C) -1.87 -1.38 0.90 0.58 265.33 pressure (db) 227.50 241.71 266.40 6.99 265.33 The pressure record contains evidence that the mooring may have been moved or may have slid to a location approximately 14 meters deeper on 11 Oct 98. Similar anomalies are present in the pressure and current records from the other instruments on this mooring.
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