Citation:

PANGAEA.399196

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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:

Dow, D L; Rossby, H Thomas; Signorini, Sergio R: SOFAR floats in MODE: Final report of the float trajectory data. Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, 77-3, mode.htm

Project(s):

World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE)

Coverage:

Median Latitude: 26.702478 * Median Longitude: -70.108391 * South-bound Latitude: 26.474000 * West-bound Longitude: -70.164000 * North-bound Latitude: 26.783000 * East-bound Longitude: -69.969000

Date/Time Start: 1973-03-20T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1973-04-11T00:00:00

Event(s):

MO17 * Latitude Start: 26.783000 * Longitude Start: -70.162000 * Latitude End: 26.474000 * Longitude End: -69.969000 * Date/Time Start: 1973-03-20T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1973-04-11T00:00:00 * Location: South Atlantic Ocean * Campaign: * Method/Device: SOFAR float (SOFAR) * Comment: Nominal depth: 1500m

Comment:

Processing method: splined, 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	Current velocity, east-west	Cur vel U	cm/s	Rossby, H Thomas	Subsurface float
5	Current velocity, north-south	Cur vel V	cm/s	Rossby, H Thomas	Subsurface float

License:

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

Size:

46 data points

Data

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1 Date/Time	2 Latitude	3 Longitude	4 Cur vel U [cm/s]	5 Cur vel V [cm/s]
1973-03-20T00:00	26.783	-70.162	-0.139	-0.955
1973-03-21T00:00	26.776	-70.163	-0.066	-0.783
1973-03-22T00:00	26.771	-70.163	0.060	-0.529
1973-03-23T00:00	26.768	-70.162	0.172	-0.178
1973-03-24T00:00	26.768	-70.161	-0.059	0.087
1973-03-25T00:00	26.769	-70.163	-0.281	0.214
1973-03-26T00:00	26.772	-70.164	0.147	0.594
1973-03-27T00:00	26.777	-70.160	0.728	0.488
1973-03-28T00:00	26.779	-70.152	1.087	0.149
1973-03-29T00:00	26.779	-70.142	1.143	-0.314
1973-03-30T00:00	26.774	-70.133	0.903	-0.817
1973-03-31T00:00	26.766	-70.126	0.770	-1.418
1973-04-01T00:00	26.752	-70.119	0.851	-1.974
1973-04-02T00:00	26.736	-70.111	1.005	-2.229
1973-04-03T00:00	26.716	-70.102	1.004	-2.962
1973-04-04T00:00	26.690	-70.093	1.199	-3.619
1973-04-05T00:00	26.661	-70.081	1.456	-3.719
1973-04-06T00:00	26.632	-70.068	1.620	-3.816
1973-04-07T00:00	26.601	-70.053	1.747	-4.097
1973-04-08T00:00	26.569	-70.037	2.114	-4.030
1973-04-09T00:00	26.538	-70.016	2.599	-4.020
1973-04-10T00:00	26.506	-69.993	2.719	-4.127
1973-04-11T00:00	26.474	-69.969	2.794	-4.091