Citation:

PANGAEA.397277

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Related to:

WOCE (2002): World Ocean Circulation Experiment, Global Data, Version 3.0. WOCE International Project Office, WOCE Report, Southampton, UK; published by U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center, Silver Spring, 180/02, DVD-ROM

Further details:

A Mediterranean Undercurrent Seeding Experiment (AMUSE): Part II : RAFOS float data report, May 1993 - March 1995

Project(s):

World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE)

Coverage:

Median Latitude: 36.619000 * Median Longitude: -9.151107 * South-bound Latitude: 36.456000 * West-bound Longitude: -9.710000 * North-bound Latitude: 36.918000 * East-bound Longitude: -8.610000

Date/Time Start: 1993-09-18T17:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1993-09-28T09:00:00

Event(s):

AM102 * Latitude Start: 36.470000 * Longitude Start: -8.610000 * Latitude End: 36.920000 * Longitude End: -9.710000 * Date/Time Start: 1993-09-18T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1993-09-28T00:00:00 * Location: South Atlantic Ocean * Campaign: * Method/Device: RAFOS float (RAFOS) * Comment: Nominal depth: 1300m

Comment:

Data have been checked by the WOCE Subsurface Float Data Assembly Center. See hdl:10013/epic.32931.d001 for further information.

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Principal Investigator	Method/Device	Comment
1	DATE/TIME	Date/Time				Geocode
2	LATITUDE	Latitude				Geocode
3	LONGITUDE	Longitude				Geocode
4	Temperature, water	Temp	°C	Bower, Amy S	Subsurface float
5	Current velocity, east-west	Cur vel U	cm/s	Bower, Amy S	Subsurface float
6	Current velocity, north-south	Cur vel V	cm/s	Bower, Amy S	Subsurface float
7	Pressure, maximum	Press max	dbar	Bower, Amy S	Subsurface float
8	Positioning type/details	Pos type		Bower, Amy S	Subsurface float	Position validity: 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent)
9	Comment	Comment		Bower, Amy S

License:

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)

Size:

144 data points

Data

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1 Date/Time	2 Latitude	3 Longitude	4 Temp [°C]	5 Cur vel U [cm/s]	6 Cur vel V [cm/s]	7 Press max [dbar]	8 Pos type	9 Comment
1993-09-18T17:00			11.71			1218.56	1	no position
1993-09-19T00:59			11.73			1245.83	1	no position
1993-09-19T09:00	36.475	-8.610	11.69			1305.95	2
1993-09-19T17:00	36.456	-8.721	11.67	-27.509	-2.705	1212.16	2
1993-09-20T01:00	36.461	-8.787	11.69	-18.183	2.705	1106.69	2
1993-09-20T09:00	36.470	-8.838	11.63	-8.702	11.207	1259.75	2
1993-09-20T16:59	36.519	-8.843	11.66	-5.590	11.980	1283.13	2
1993-09-21T01:00	36.532	-8.874	11.68	-7.608	2.705	1324.59	2
1993-09-21T09:00	36.533	-8.892	11.56	-4.813	-0.966	1334.33	1
1993-09-21T16:59	36.527	-8.905	11.63	-6.211	-3.285	1341.01	2
1993-09-22T00:59	36.516	-8.932	11.59	-7.610	-0.386	1340.74	2
1993-09-22T09:00	36.525	-8.954	11.52	-5.745	6.183	1349.08	2
1993-09-22T17:00	36.548	-8.969	11.52	-6.985	5.797	1332.39	2
1993-09-23T00:59	36.555	-8.999	11.48	-8.382	0.193	1364.67	2
1993-09-23T09:00	36.549	-9.023	11.53	-9.159	0.386	1343.80	2
1993-09-23T17:00	36.557	-9.058	11.59	-11.641	4.058	1344.91	2
1993-09-24T00:59	36.570	-9.098	11.54	-12.415	5.797	1363.83	2
1993-09-24T09:00	36.587	-9.138	11.55	-10.240	4.831	1372.18	2
1993-09-24T17:00	36.595	-9.164	11.52	-11.946	0.000	1365.78	2
1993-09-25T00:59	36.587	-9.215	11.24	-17.067	-0.966	1377.75	2
1993-09-25T09:00	36.590	-9.274	10.95	-19.083	8.116	1383.59	2
1993-09-25T17:00	36.629	-9.338	10.89	-23.260	16.424	1369.40	2
1993-09-26T01:00	36.675	-9.424	11.14	-21.697	16.618	1382.48	2
1993-09-26T09:00	36.715	-9.478	10.63	-16.729	17.197	1374.69	2
1993-09-26T16:59	36.764	-9.532	10.47	-14.706	22.221	1377.19	2
1993-09-27T01:00	36.830	-9.573	11.15	-9.125	18.164	1384.15	2
1993-09-27T09:00	36.858	-9.591	11.43	-7.885	11.014	1389.44	2
1993-09-27T16:59	36.887	-9.624	11.29	-11.746	8.889	1388.32	2
1993-09-28T01:00	36.904	-9.667	11.42	-13.288	5.990	1394.73	2
1993-09-28T09:00	36.918	-9.710	11.47			1379.98	2