Citation:

PANGAEA.399528

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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: 26.150934 * Median Longitude: -71.428867 * South-bound Latitude: 22.088000 * West-bound Longitude: -75.728000 * North-bound Latitude: 28.550000 * East-bound Longitude: -68.273000

Date/Time Start: 1977-04-18T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1979-03-19T00:00:00

Event(s):

PL25 * Latitude Start: 26.058000 * Longitude Start: -70.064000 * Latitude End: 24.877000 * Longitude End: -75.728000 * Date/Time Start: 1977-04-18T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1979-03-19T00:00:00 * Location: South Atlantic Ocean * Campaign: * Method/Device: SOFAR float (SOFAR) * Comment: Nominal depth: 700m

Comment:

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	Temperature, water	Temp	°C	Rossby, H Thomas	Subsurface float
5	Current velocity, east-west	Cur vel U	cm/s	Rossby, H Thomas	Subsurface float
6	Current velocity, north-south	Cur vel V	cm/s	Rossby, H Thomas	Subsurface float
7	Pressure, maximum	Press max	dbar	Rossby, H Thomas	Subsurface float
8	Comment	Comment		Rossby, H Thomas

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

Size:

3500 data points

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