Experiment name: SCM6 (ADOX)
Principal Investigator: R.Dickson
PI's affiliation: CEFAS
Mooring Name: 9309
Mooring position: 48.198 deg S, 59.628 deg E
Instrument depth: 2796 meters
Seafloor depth: 4366 meters
Times: starts 05 Mar 1993, ends 21 Aug 1993
Time increment: 60 minutes
Instrument type: Aanderaa RCM5
parameter min mean max sd days
speed (cm/sec) 1.50 7.15 20.45 4.10 168.8
dir (deg true) 0.00 173.92 359.94 139.02 168.8
u (cm/sec) -17.32 -0.80 10.97 4.15 168.8
v (cm/sec) -17.71 4.16 19.68 5.73 168.8
temp (deg C) 0.98 1.15 1.27 0.05 168.8
The temperature series contains a gap in lines 1637 - 3008
(1830 12 May 93 - 2130 8 Jul 93).
With regard to speed and direction, we include here a note of
caution from CEFAS:
This record is suspect and should be used with caution because
(a) Very few (approximately 2% of the total) directions were
recorded between 80 and 160 degrees. The compass may have
been influenced by the angle of the earth's magnetic field,
or the meter may not have been horizontal, or the compass
may have been faulty.
(b) The tape translation after 83 days - by 11 May - becomes
poor (the meter reference number changes and pulse length
errors occur); and although the problem appears to clear
by day 146 - 13 July - it subsequently returns when the
record ends, on 21 August 1993.
As a result of the second problem, we (OSU) have removed speed and
direction in lines 1619 - 3106 (0030 11 May 93 - 2330 12 Jul 93).
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