Metadata and plots from OSU Buoy Group Accession 4661

Experiment name: AnSlope 2003-04 Principal Investigator: A.L.Gordon/A.Orsi/R.D.Pillsbury PI's affiliation: LDEO/TAMU/OSU Mooring Name: West A-1 Mooring position: 72.010 deg S, 172.826 deg E Instrument depth: 419 meters Seafloor depth: 609 meters Times: starts 06 Mar 2003, ends 26 Feb 2004 Time increment: 30 minutes Instrument type: Aanderaa RCM8s parameter min mean max sd days speed (cm/sec) 0.92 39.20 65.75 17.47 357.7 dir (deg true) 215.70 278.85 335.35 23.77 357.7 u (cm/sec) -64.28 -36.73 -0.44 17.94 357.7 v (cm/sec) -20.45 7.85 51.76 10.47 357.7 temp (deg C) -1.90 0.60 1.22 0.50 357.7 pressure (db) 422.60 449.96 565.30 30.82 357.7 Directions were limited to a narrow range centered at about 280 degrees. Note the odd tripartite distribution of directions in the histogram below. At recovery the machine's clock was running 12 minutes 20 seconds slow.

The axes of the PVD are labelled in kilometers. Boxes mark the beginning of each month.

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