Citation:

PANGAEA.399694

Name: Water temperature and current velocity from SOFAR float TPG60A
Creator: Michel Ollitrault
Published: 2006-03-14
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Published: 2006-03-14 • DOI registered: 2006-04-11

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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:

The TOPOGULF experiment lagrangian data. Laboratoire de physique des oceans, Institut francaise de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer, topogf.htm

Project(s):

World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE)

Coverage:

Median Latitude: 34.249377 * Median Longitude: -33.215458 * South-bound Latitude: 0.000000 * West-bound Longitude: -47.765000 * North-bound Latitude: 52.333000 * East-bound Longitude: 0.000000

Date/Time Start: 1984-10-28T20:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1987-02-01T08:00:00

Event(s):

TPG60A * Latitude Start: 33.152000 * Longitude Start: -32.936000 * Latitude End: 52.170000 * Longitude End: -47.760000 * Date/Time Start: 1984-10-28T20:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1987-02-01T08:00:00 * Location: North 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	Ollitrault, Michel	Subsurface float
5	Current velocity, east-west	Cur vel U	cm/s	Ollitrault, Michel	Subsurface float
6	Current velocity, north-south	Cur vel V	cm/s	Ollitrault, Michel	Subsurface float
7	Pressure, maximum	Press max	dbar	Ollitrault, Michel	Subsurface float
8	Comment	Comment		Ollitrault, Michel

License:

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

Size:

6918 data points

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