Citation:

PANGAEA.401917

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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:

Hansen, Donald V; Poulain, Pierre-Marie (1996): Quality control and interpolations of WOCE-TOGA drifter data. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 13(4), 900-909, https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0426(1996)013%3C0900:QCAIOW%3E2.0.CO;2

Project(s):

World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE)

Coverage:

Median Latitude: 15.966179 * Median Longitude: -88.043893 * South-bound Latitude: 15.800000 * West-bound Longitude: -88.281000 * North-bound Latitude: 16.177000 * East-bound Longitude: -87.662000

Date/Time Start: 2000-04-28T12:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2000-05-05T06:00:00

Minimum DEPTH, water: 0 m * Maximum DEPTH, water: 0 m

Event(s):

SVP_21142 (WMO52856) * Latitude: 15.979000 * Longitude: -87.662000 * Date/Time Start: 2000-04-28T12:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2000-05-05T06:00:00 * Location: Caribbean Sea * Campaign: * Method/Device: Drifter, longterm (LD)

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Method/Device	Comment
1	DATE/TIME	Date/Time			Geocode
2	LATITUDE	Latitude			Geocode
3	LONGITUDE	Longitude			Geocode
4	DEPTH, water	Depth water	m		Geocode
5	Temperature, water	Temp	°C	Buoy, drifting (BUOY_DRIFT)
6	Current velocity, east-west	Cur vel U	cm/s	Buoy, drifting (BUOY_DRIFT)
7	Current velocity, north-south	Cur vel V	cm/s	Buoy, drifting (BUOY_DRIFT)
8	Latitude, error	Latitude e		Buoy, drifting (BUOY_DRIFT)
9	Longitude, error	Longitude e		Buoy, drifting (BUOY_DRIFT)
10	Code	Code		Buoy, drifting (BUOY_DRIFT)	Drogue, off=0/on=1

License:

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

Size:

164 data points

Data

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1 Date/Time	2 Latitude	3 Longitude	5 Temp [°C]	6 Cur vel U [cm/s]	7 Cur vel V [cm/s]	8 Latitude e	9 Longitude e	10 Code
2000-04-28T12:00	16.177	-88.131	27.914			0.0000	0.0000	1
2000-04-28T18:00	16.170	-88.167	28.026	-15.28	-5.24	0.0001	0.0001	1
2000-04-29T00:00	16.157	-88.193	28.097	-13.04	-10.97	0.0000	0.0000	1
2000-04-29T06:00	16.127	-88.220	27.980	-10.16	-16.65	0.0001	0.0002	1
2000-04-29T12:00	16.092	-88.234	27.919	-8.60	-15.65	0.0000	0.0000	1
2000-04-29T18:00	16.066	-88.254	28.048	-9.22	-19.22	0.0001	0.0001	1
2000-04-30T00:00	16.017	-88.271	28.067	-5.92	-26.85	0.0000	0.0000	1
2000-04-30T06:00	15.961	-88.278	27.923	-2.38	-26.48	0.0001	0.0001	1
2000-04-30T12:00	15.913	-88.281	27.905	1.10	-19.65	0.0000	0.0000	1
2000-04-30T18:00	15.884	-88.274	28.132	7.65	-16.83	0.0001	0.0001	1
2000-05-01T00:00	15.848	-88.250	28.214	9.69	-17.84	0.0000	0.0000	1
2000-05-01T06:00	15.815	-88.235	28.086	13.77	-11.37	0.0001	0.0001	1
2000-05-01T12:00	15.803	-88.194	28.164	23.26	-3.58	0.0000	0.0000	1
2000-05-01T18:00	15.801	-88.141	28.461	20.37	-0.92	0.0001	0.0001	1
2000-05-02T00:00	15.800	-88.112	28.575	13.54	0.17	0.0000	0.0000	1
2000-05-02T06:00	15.801	-88.086	28.419	15.07	6.29	0.0001	0.0001	1
2000-05-02T12:00	15.824	-88.051	28.377	21.17	23.81	0.0000	0.0000	1
2000-05-02T18:00	15.894	-88.001	28.569	27.31	27.53	0.0001	0.0001	1
2000-05-03T00:00	15.932	-87.941	28.539	21.09	17.24	0.0000	0.0000	1
2000-05-03T06:00	15.961	-87.916	28.289	18.45	15.96	0.0001	0.0001	1
2000-05-03T12:00	15.994	-87.867	28.237	24.75	11.96	0.0001	0.0001	1
2000-05-03T18:00	16.008	-87.816	28.322	22.55	4.39	0.0001	0.0002	1
2000-05-04T00:00	16.011	-87.776	28.272	16.58	0.16	0.0000	0.0000	1
2000-05-04T06:00	16.009	-87.749	28.090	9.89	-1.68	0.0002	0.0002	1
2000-05-04T12:00	16.004	-87.736	28.028	7.33	-0.92	0.0000	0.0000	1
2000-05-04T18:00	16.005	-87.719	28.091	15.25	-1.20	0.0001	0.0001	1
2000-05-05T00:00	16.000	-87.674	28.075	14.23	-6.77	0.0000	0.0000	1
2000-05-05T06:00	15.979	-87.662	27.963			0.0001	0.0002	1