Citation:

PANGAEA.398591

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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:

KAPEX RAFOS float data report 1997-1999, Part A: The Agulhas- and South Atlantic current components. Christian-Albrechts-Universität, IFM 318, kapexdr.htm

Project(s):

World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE)

Coverage:

Median Latitude: -39.354008 * Median Longitude: 0.607575 * South-bound Latitude: -41.577000 * West-bound Longitude: -3.219000 * North-bound Latitude: -36.581000 * East-bound Longitude: 5.831000

Date/Time Start: 1997-03-31T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1998-06-13T12:00:00

Event(s):

KP227 * Latitude Start: -41.006000 * Longitude Start: -2.548000 * Latitude End: -36.601000 * Longitude End: 5.643000 * Date/Time Start: 1997-03-31T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1998-06-13T12:00:00 * Location: South Atlantic Ocean * Campaign: * Method/Device: RAFOS float (RAFOS) * Comment: Nominal depth: 800m

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	Boebel, Olaf	Subsurface float
5	Current velocity, east-west	Cur vel U	cm/s	Boebel, Olaf	Subsurface float
6	Current velocity, north-south	Cur vel V	cm/s	Boebel, Olaf	Subsurface float
7	Current velocity, vertical	Cur vel W	cm/s	Boebel, Olaf	Subsurface float
8	Pressure, maximum	Press max	dbar	Boebel, Olaf	Subsurface float

License:

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

Size:

4400 data points

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