Citation:

PANGAEA.398335

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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:

WOCE deep basin experiment - RAFOS floats settings 1 - 4

Project(s):

World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE)

Coverage:

Median Latitude: -17.255165 * Median Longitude: -23.651777 * South-bound Latitude: -18.007000 * West-bound Longitude: -25.076000 * North-bound Latitude: -16.620000 * East-bound Longitude: -22.271000

Date/Time Start: 1994-05-13T01:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1996-07-19T01:00:00

Event(s):

DBW201 * Latitude Start: -17.943000 * Longitude Start: -24.822000 * Latitude End: -17.499000 * Longitude End: -25.076000 * Date/Time Start: 1994-05-13T01:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1996-07-19T01:00:00 * Location: South Atlantic Ocean * Campaign: * Method/Device: RAFOS float (RAFOS) * Comment: Nominal depth: 2500m

Comment:

Velocity algorithm: splined. 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	Hogg, Nelson	Subsurface float
5	Current velocity, east-west	Cur vel U	cm/s	Hogg, Nelson	Subsurface float
6	Current velocity, north-south	Cur vel V	cm/s	Hogg, Nelson	Subsurface float
7	Pressure, maximum	Press max	dbar	Hogg, Nelson	Subsurface float
8	Positioning type/details	Pos type		Hogg, Nelson	Subsurface float	Position validity: 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent)
9	Comment	Comment		Hogg, Nelson

License:

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

Size:

2070 data points

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