Citation:

PANGAEA.399492

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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: 23.937417 * Median Longitude: -59.978583 * South-bound Latitude: 23.876000 * West-bound Longitude: -60.086000 * North-bound Latitude: 24.006000 * East-bound Longitude: -59.893000

Date/Time Start: 1977-02-27T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1977-03-10T00:00:00

Event(s):

PL10F * Latitude Start: 23.876000 * Longitude Start: -59.893000 * Latitude End: 24.006000 * Longitude End: -60.086000 * Date/Time Start: 1977-02-27T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1977-03-10T00:00:00 * 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]
1977-02-27T00:00	23.876	-59.893	-2.239	2.307	1999.75
1977-02-28T00:00	23.894	-59.912	-0.472	0.256	1999.73
1977-03-01T00:00	23.896	-59.916	-1.296	0.256	1999.71
1977-03-02T00:00	23.898	-59.927	-2.122	1.282	1999.69
1977-03-03T00:00	23.908	-59.945	-2.357	2.435	1999.67
1977-03-04T00:00	23.927	-59.965	-2.121	2.435	1999.54
1977-03-05T00:00	23.946	-59.983	-2.238	1.923	1999.41
1977-03-06T00:00	23.961	-60.002	-2.121	0.897	1999.71
1977-03-07T00:00	23.968	-60.020	-1.885	1.282	2000.00
1977-03-08T00:00	23.978	-60.036	-2.591	1.666
1977-03-09T00:00	23.991	-60.058	-3.298	1.923
1977-03-10T00:00	24.006	-60.086	-4.181	1.800