Citation:

PANGAEA.398600

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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: -35.018600 * Median Longitude: 24.461160 * South-bound Latitude: -35.636000 * West-bound Longitude: 23.445000 * North-bound Latitude: -34.517000 * East-bound Longitude: 25.673000

Date/Time Start: 1997-12-04T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1997-12-16T00:00:00

Event(s):

KP483 * Latitude Start: -34.802000 * Longitude Start: 25.525000 * Latitude End: -35.636000 * Longitude End: 23.445000 * Date/Time Start: 1997-12-04T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1997-12-16T00:00:00 * Location: Indian Ocean * Campaign: * Method/Device: RAFOS float (RAFOS) * Comment: Nominal depth: 700m

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:

125 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 Cur vel W [cm/s]	8 Press max [dbar]
1997-12-04T00:00	-34.802	25.525	7.012	-58.91	20.60	0.079	716.1
1997-12-04T12:00	-34.690	25.351	6.745	7.86	45.17	0.285	652.2
1997-12-05T00:00	-34.517	25.570	6.762	56.42	18.91	0.214	509.6
1997-12-05T12:00	-34.606	25.673	6.681	-28.86	-55.61	-0.295	530.6
1997-12-06T00:00	-34.833	25.340	6.983	-86.69	-40.04	-0.226	681.2
1997-12-06T12:00	-34.883	24.982	6.977	-62.17	1.70	-0.069	712.9
1997-12-07T00:00	-34.855	24.773	6.624	-24.02	15.94	0.403	695.5
1997-12-07T12:00	-34.770	24.754	6.384	13.58	21.73	0.389	434.5
1997-12-08T00:00	-34.725	24.844	6.549	15.09	-2.57	-0.148	434.5
1997-12-08T12:00	-34.810	24.794	6.446	-48.52	-42.35	-0.001	464.0
1997-12-09T00:00	-34.985	24.444	6.543	-74.20	-28.84	0.024	453.0
1997-12-09T12:00	-35.011	24.201	6.389	-29.09	3.11	0.045	443.9
1997-12-10T00:00	-35.006	24.130	6.589	-7.98	0.72	0.029	419.4
1997-12-10T12:00	-34.999	24.097	6.624	-5.02	3.40	-0.020	423.4
1997-12-11T00:00	-34.977	24.110	6.618	15.46	7.98	0.004	426.1
1997-12-11T12:00	-34.951	24.234	6.624	29.85	1.57	-0.027	428.0
1997-12-12T00:00	-34.980	24.348	6.670	15.28	-17.06	-0.084	453.0
1997-12-12T12:00	-35.079	24.358	6.768	-12.86	-32.41	-0.175	505.4
1997-12-13T00:00	-35.221	24.220	6.895	-44.02	-38.68	-0.058	574.1
1997-12-13T12:00	-35.356	23.963	6.480	-59.52	-26.22	0.076	553.2
1997-12-14T00:00	-35.417	23.703	6.310	-43.58	-7.60	0.175	513.7
1997-12-14T12:00	-35.429	23.570	6.270	-13.81	0.01	0.137	421.8
1997-12-15T00:00	-35.434	23.549	6.310	2.05	-6.21	-0.024	413.0
1997-12-15T12:00	-35.493	23.551	6.543	-6.28	-24.83	-0.019	418.6
1997-12-16T00:00	-35.636	23.445	6.687	-42.23	-49.89	-0.039	433.1