Citation:

PANGAEA.397310

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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. amdr.htm

Project(s):

World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE)

Coverage:

Median Latitude: 36.417250 * Median Longitude: -8.561875 * South-bound Latitude: 36.370000 * West-bound Longitude: -8.592000 * North-bound Latitude: 36.464000 * East-bound Longitude: -8.542000

Date/Time Start: 1993-11-09T17:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1993-11-12T16:59:00

Event(s):

AM135A * Latitude Start: 36.460000 * Longitude Start: -8.560000 * Latitude End: 36.370000 * Longitude End: -8.590000 * Date/Time Start: 1993-11-09T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1993-11-12T00:00:00 * 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:

44 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
1993-11-09T17:00			11.47			1174.69	1	no position
1993-11-10T00:59			11.16			1173.86	1	no position
1993-11-10T09:00	36.464	-8.564	11.99			1154.97	2
1993-11-10T17:00	36.437	-8.542	11.50	1.710	-9.275	1167.19	2
1993-11-11T01:00	36.416	-8.553	11.37	-0.155	-4.058	1163.58	2
1993-11-11T09:00	36.416	-8.543	11.41	0.000	-1.353	1161.36	2
1993-11-11T16:59	36.409	-8.553	11.48	-4.199	2.512	1166.91	2
1993-11-12T01:00	36.429	-8.570	11.72	-3.887	-2.319	1159.97	2
1993-11-12T09:00	36.397	-8.578	11.12	-3.422	-11.401	1176.08	2
1993-11-12T16:59	36.370	-8.592	10.69			1231.92	2