Citation:

PANGAEA.397303

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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: 36.390214 * Median Longitude: -8.531071 * South-bound Latitude: 36.334000 * West-bound Longitude: -8.634000 * North-bound Latitude: 36.453000 * East-bound Longitude: -8.450000

Date/Time Start: 1993-11-13T17:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1993-11-18T09:00:00

Event(s):

AM126A * Latitude Start: 36.430000 * Longitude Start: -8.520000 * Latitude End: 36.430000 * Longitude End: -8.560000 * Date/Time Start: 1993-11-13T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1993-11-18T00:00:00 * Location: South Atlantic Ocean * Campaign: * Method/Device: RAFOS float (RAFOS) * Comment: Nominal depth: 1200m

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:

70 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
1993-11-13T17:00			12.22			1206.32	1	no position
1993-11-14T00:59	36.431	-8.523	12.05			1199.39	2
1993-11-14T09:00	36.424	-8.533	12.12	3.265	-9.855	1199.66	2
1993-11-14T17:00	36.380	-8.502	11.37	11.668	-10.434	1191.90	2
1993-11-15T01:00	36.370	-8.458	11.03	7.935	-2.126	1194.67	2
1993-11-15T09:00	36.369	-8.451	10.96	1.245	4.058	1185.80	2
1993-11-15T16:59	36.391	-8.450	11.13	-4.200	10.821	1185.25	2
1993-11-16T01:00	36.425	-8.478	11.01	-8.707	11.980	1188.02	2
1993-11-16T09:00	36.453	-8.506	11.39	-14.454	-5.024	1191.07	2
1993-11-16T16:59	36.399	-8.571	11.38	-19.130	-15.845	1200.50	2
1993-11-17T00:59	36.371	-8.629	11.77	-9.802	-12.560	1201.33	2
1993-11-17T09:00	36.334	-8.634	11.26	5.137	-6.956	1205.48	2
1993-11-17T17:00	36.335	-8.596	10.28	13.231	3.478	1272.29	2
1993-11-18T00:59	36.352	-8.549	9.21	6.381	18.164	1306.94	2
1993-11-18T09:00	36.429	-8.555	9.13			1357.94	2