Citation:

PANGAEA.399625

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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:

Richardson, Philip L; Zemanovic, M E; Wooding, Christine M; Schmitz, W J: SOFAR float trajectories in the Tropical Atlantic 1989-1992. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 94-33, whta.htm

Project(s):

World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE)

Coverage:

Median Latitude: 12.213171 * Median Longitude: -20.388154 * South-bound Latitude: 8.920000 * West-bound Longitude: -23.429000 * North-bound Latitude: 19.322000 * East-bound Longitude: -16.843000

Date/Time Start: 1989-02-17T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1992-07-19T00:00:00

Event(s):

TA17A * Latitude Start: 11.222000 * Longitude Start: -23.182000 * Latitude End: 19.322000 * Longitude End: -17.670000 * Date/Time Start: 1989-02-17T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1992-07-19T00:00:00 * Location: South Atlantic Ocean * Campaign: * Method/Device: SOFAR float (SOFAR) * Comment: Nominal depth: 800m

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	Richardson, Philip L	Subsurface float
5	Current velocity, north-south	Cur vel V	cm/s	Richardson, Philip L	Subsurface float

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

Size:

2498 data points

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