Citation:

PANGAEA.399489

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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:

O'Gara, R; Rossby, H Thomas; Spain, D L: SOFAR float pilot studies in the Western North Atlantic 1975-1981. Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, 82-3, pl.htm

Project(s):

World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE)

Coverage:

Median Latitude: 23.436091 * Median Longitude: -63.493000 * South-bound Latitude: 23.401000 * West-bound Longitude: -63.630000 * North-bound Latitude: 23.460000 * East-bound Longitude: -63.370000

Date/Time Start: 1976-06-29T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1976-07-09T00:00:00

Event(s):

PL10C * Latitude Start: 23.405000 * Longitude Start: -63.630000 * Latitude End: 23.460000 * Longitude End: -63.370000 * Date/Time Start: 1976-06-29T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1976-07-09T00:00:00 * Location: South Atlantic Ocean * Campaign: * Method/Device: SOFAR float (SOFAR) * Comment: Nominal depth: 2000m

Comment:

Processing method: interpolated, velocity algorithm: backward differencing. 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
6	Pressure, maximum	Press max	dbar	Rossby, H Thomas	Subsurface float

License:

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

Size:

33 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]	6 Press max [dbar]
1976-06-29T00:00	23.405	-63.630	6.389	-0.513	1998.66
1976-06-30T00:00	23.401	-63.576	1.183	1.282	1998.83
1976-07-01T00:00	23.411	-63.566	-0.473	2.051	1999.25
1976-07-02T00:00	23.427	-63.570	2.366	1.282	1999.67
1976-07-03T00:00	23.437	-63.550	4.968	1.025	1999.69
1976-07-04T00:00	23.445	-63.508	5.559	0.641	1999.71
1976-07-05T00:00	23.450	-63.461	4.849	0.128	1999.73
1976-07-06T00:00	23.451	-63.420	3.075	0.256	1999.75
1976-07-07T00:00	23.453	-63.394	1.893	0.513	1999.29
1976-07-08T00:00	23.457	-63.378	0.946	0.384	1998.84
1976-07-09T00:00	23.460	-63.370	3.062	-0.309	1998.38