Citation:

PANGAEA.398614

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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: -31.697880 * Median Longitude: 30.153880 * South-bound Latitude: -33.138000 * West-bound Longitude: 29.404000 * North-bound Latitude: -30.435000 * East-bound Longitude: 31.386000

Date/Time Start: 1998-06-15T12:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1998-06-27T12:00:00

Event(s):

KP500 * Latitude Start: -30.435000 * Longitude Start: 31.386000 * Latitude End: -33.138000 * Longitude End: 29.404000 * Date/Time Start: 1998-06-15T12:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1998-06-27T12:00:00 * Location: Indian Ocean * Campaign: * Method/Device: RAFOS float (RAFOS) * Comment: Nominal depth: 1100m

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]
1998-06-15T12:00	-30.435	31.386	6.433	-39.34	-0.61	0.151	941.6
1998-06-16T00:00	-30.469	31.210	5.887	-38.76	-25.22	0.024	894.7
1998-06-16T12:00	-30.618	31.036	6.153	-38.49	-40.42	0.092	892.8
1998-06-17T00:00	-30.750	30.841	6.031	-52.25	-30.48	0.131	819.4
1998-06-17T12:00	-30.870	30.605	6.246	-38.65	-31.85	0.027	800.4
1998-06-18T00:00	-30.995	30.513	6.124	-10.30	-30.74	-0.034	789.9
1998-06-18T12:00	-31.104	30.469	6.386	-10.13	-26.01	-0.043	822.5
1998-06-19T00:00	-31.199	30.411	6.234	-16.86	-22.81	0.021	816.8
1998-06-19T12:00	-31.285	30.317	6.240	-22.73	-22.27	-0.010	818.3
1998-06-20T00:00	-31.372	30.217	6.275	-19.98	-21.86	0.009	818.3
1998-06-20T12:00	-31.452	30.148	6.246	-8.38	-19.22	-0.001	814.9
1998-06-21T00:00	-31.525	30.118	6.363	-11.85	-18.57	-0.059	826.1
1998-06-21T12:00	-31.605	30.043	6.421	-13.62	-24.65	-0.067	859.0
1998-06-22T00:00	-31.715	29.998	6.380	-12.51	-29.78	-0.079	884.8
1998-06-22T12:00	-31.833	29.923	6.374	-14.84	-31.85	-0.048	921.3
1998-06-23T00:00	-31.963	29.875	6.392	-8.79	-34.16	-0.018	926.5
1998-06-23T12:00	-32.088	29.826	6.298	-13.91	-28.13	-0.071	948.6
1998-06-24T00:00	-32.187	29.761	6.222	-9.90	-25.93	-0.084	982.3
1998-06-24T12:00	-32.300	29.735	5.910	-5.36	-32.05	-0.109	1022.9
1998-06-25T00:00	-32.430	29.704	5.709	-5.98	-33.70	-0.064	1066.5
1998-06-25T12:00	-32.563	29.677	5.357	-8.94	-35.96	-0.035	1080.8
1998-06-26T00:00	-32.708	29.614	5.386	-16.48	-36.60	-0.046	1102.5
1998-06-26T12:00	-32.847	29.539	5.425	-14.79	-36.90	-0.052	1119.7
1998-06-27T00:00	-32.996	29.477	5.663	-13.42	-38.23	-0.053	1146.9
1998-06-27T12:00	-33.138	29.404	5.732	-18.82	-34.32	0.038	1152.1