Metadata from CMDAC Accession 1756

Experiment name:        Deep Basin (ACM12)

Principal Investigator: W.Zenk

PI's affiliation:       IFM-Kiel

Mooring Name:           BE/335

Mooring position:       28.269 deg S,   45.225 deg W

Instrument depth:       2554 meters

Seafloor depth:         3258 meters

Times:                  starts 04 Jan 1991, ends 25 Nov 1992

Time increment:         120 minutes

Instrument type:        Aanderaa RCM8



  parameter         min     mean      max       sd     days

speed (cm/sec)      0.99     5.70    26.39     4.70    692.0

dir (deg true)      0.00   234.97   359.83    76.42    692.0

u (cm/sec)        -16.00    -2.36    12.06     3.71    692.0

v (cm/sec)        -22.58    -1.43    16.40     5.76    692.0

temp (deg C)        2.99     3.20     3.38     0.06    692.0



Approximately 30% of the speeds in this record were below the

current meter's threshold, and have been set to 1 cm/sec.

The mooring appears to have slipped downslope and settled about

35 meters deeper during a high-speed event at the end of February

1991.

Move up one level.

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