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: 1954 meters Seafloor depth: 2850 meters Times: 2200 29 Apr 1998 to 0400 19 Jan 1999 Time increment: 120 minutes Instrument type: Falmouth 3D-ACM parameter min mean max stddev days speed (cm/sec) 0.26 8.53 23.19 4.17 264.33 dir (deg true) 0.05 252.12 359.70 98.55 264.33 u (cm/sec) -22.90 -5.37 12.95 5.38 264.33 v (cm/sec) -13.11 3.40 20.02 4.56 264.33 w (cm/sec) -4.44 -1.37 0.70 0.57 264.33 temp (deg C) -0.04 0.06 0.18 0.03 264.33 pressure (db) 1953.50 1964.51 1971.90 6.85 264.33 salinity (psu) 34.66 34.67 34.67 0.00 264.33 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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