Citation:

PANGAEA.399497

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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: 23.469842 * Median Longitude: -64.211842 * South-bound Latitude: 23.357000 * West-bound Longitude: -64.693000 * North-bound Latitude: 23.612000 * East-bound Longitude: -63.827000

Date/Time Start: 1978-02-18T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1978-03-08T00:00:00

Event(s):

PL10K * Latitude Start: 23.357000 * Longitude Start: -63.827000 * Latitude End: 23.612000 * Longitude End: -64.693000 * Date/Time Start: 1978-02-18T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1978-03-08T00:00:00 * 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

License:

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

Size:

38 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]
1978-02-18T00:00	23.357	-63.827	-2.367	1.153
1978-02-19T00:00	23.366	-63.847	-2.485	1.154
1978-02-20T00:00	23.375	-63.868	-4.733	1.025
1978-02-21T00:00	23.383	-63.908	-4.496	1.410
1978-02-22T00:00	23.394	-63.946	-5.679	1.923
1978-02-23T00:00	23.409	-63.994	-6.744	2.051
1978-02-24T00:00	23.425	-64.051	-6.388	2.564
1978-02-25T00:00	23.445	-64.105	-7.805	1.794
1978-02-26T00:00	23.459	-64.171	-6.386	0.897
1978-02-27T00:00	23.466	-64.225	-4.494	0.897
1978-02-28T00:00	23.473	-64.263	-5.084	1.410
1978-03-01T00:00	23.484	-64.306	-4.966	2.179
1978-03-02T00:00	23.501	-64.348	-5.083	2.307
1978-03-03T00:00	23.519	-64.391	-5.319	2.564
1978-03-04T00:00	23.539	-64.436	-4.491	1.666
1978-03-05T00:00	23.552	-64.474	-8.390	2.564
1978-03-06T00:00	23.572	-64.545	-9.689	3.076
1978-03-07T00:00	23.596	-64.627	-7.797	2.051
1978-03-08T00:00	23.612	-64.693	-8.032	1.666