Citation:

PANGAEA.399212

Name: Current velocity from SOFAR float MO33
Creator: H Thomas Rossby
Published: 2006-03-10
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Published: 2006-03-10 • DOI registered: 2006-04-07

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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: 27.055027 * Median Longitude: -68.977514 * South-bound Latitude: 26.963000 * West-bound Longitude: -69.048000 * North-bound Latitude: 27.188000 * East-bound Longitude: -68.917000

Date/Time Start: 1973-05-04T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1973-06-09T00:00:00

Event(s):

MO33 * Latitude Start: 27.187000 * Longitude Start: -68.920000 * Latitude End: 27.081000 * Longitude End: -68.930000 * Date/Time Start: 1973-05-04T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1973-06-09T00:00:00 * Location: North 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:

74 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]
1973-05-04T00:00	27.187	-68.920	0.666	0.147
1973-05-05T00:00	27.188	-68.917	-0.301	0.091
1973-05-06T00:00	27.188	-68.925	-1.184	-0.125
1973-05-07T00:00	27.185	-68.935	-1.156	-0.744
1973-05-08T00:00	27.176	-68.946	-1.417	-1.514
1973-05-09T00:00	27.163	-68.959	-1.434	-1.665
1973-05-10T00:00	27.150	-68.970	-1.108	-1.829
1973-05-11T00:00	27.134	-68.980	-1.364	-2.174
1973-05-12T00:00	27.117	-68.994	-1.698	-2.169
1973-05-13T00:00	27.101	-69.009	-1.828	-1.845
1973-05-14T00:00	27.087	-69.025	-1.665	-1.994
1973-05-15T00:00	27.069	-69.036	-0.810	-2.489
1973-05-16T00:00	27.050	-69.040	-0.260	-2.285
1973-05-17T00:00	27.034	-69.042	-0.216	-1.837
1973-05-18T00:00	27.020	-69.042	0.436	-1.907
1973-05-19T00:00	27.004	-69.039	-0.493	-2.076
1973-05-20T00:00	26.989	-69.048	-0.529	-1.717
1973-05-21T00:00	26.977	-69.043	1.233	-1.446
1973-05-22T00:00	26.967	-69.032	1.113	-0.965
1973-05-23T00:00	26.963	-69.024	0.863	-0.079
1973-05-24T00:00	26.964	-69.016	0.949	0.127
1973-05-25T00:00	26.965	-69.007	1.201	0.340
1973-05-26T00:00	26.970	-68.995	1.485	0.820
1973-05-27T00:00	26.977	-68.982	1.478	0.997
1973-05-28T00:00	26.985	-68.970	1.221	0.964
1973-05-29T00:00	26.992	-68.961	0.879	0.920
1973-05-30T00:00	27.000	-68.954	0.776	1.127
1973-05-31T00:00	27.009	-68.947	0.842	1.111
1973-06-01T00:00	27.017	-68.941	0.336	0.970
1973-06-02T00:00	27.024	-68.940	0.223	0.781
1973-06-03T00:00	27.030	-68.936	0.496	0.908
1973-06-04T00:00	27.038	-68.933	0.207	0.973
1973-06-05T00:00	27.045	-68.932	0.052	0.971
1973-06-06T00:00	27.054	-68.932	-0.071	1.298
1973-06-07T00:00	27.064	-68.933	-0.113	1.145
1973-06-08T00:00	27.072	-68.933	0.180	1.047
1973-06-09T00:00	27.081	-68.930	0.426	1.208