Citation:

PANGAEA.402982

Name: Water temperature and current velocity from surface drifter SVP_7704419
Creator: SVP WOCE Surface Velocity Program
Published: 2006-03-24
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Published: 2006-03-24 • DOI registered: 2006-04-21

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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: 1.002864 * Median Longitude: -85.957591 * South-bound Latitude: 0.077000 * West-bound Longitude: -86.569000 * North-bound Latitude: 1.727000 * East-bound Longitude: -85.087000

Date/Time Start: 1984-12-11T12:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1984-12-16T18:00:00

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

Event(s):

SVP_7704419 (WMO999) * Latitude: 1.727000 * Longitude: -86.569000 * Date/Time Start: 1984-12-11T12:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1984-12-16T18:00:00 * Location: North Pacific Ocean * 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:

128 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
1984-12-11T12:00	0.077	-85.087	23.370			0.0000	0.0000	1
1984-12-11T18:00	0.160	-85.187	23.793	-51.72	45.62	0.0001	0.0002	1
1984-12-12T00:00	0.255	-85.288	24.163	-49.70	51.58	0.0001	0.0001	0
1984-12-12T06:00	0.361	-85.380	23.840	-46.19	54.58	0.0001	0.0001	0
1984-12-12T12:00	0.469	-85.467	23.454	-47.11	57.22	0.0000	0.0000	0
1984-12-12T18:00	0.585	-85.563	23.692	-47.88	60.14	0.0001	0.0001	0
1984-12-13T00:00	0.703	-85.653	23.840	-39.58	57.48	0.0000	0.0000	0
1984-12-13T06:00	0.809	-85.716	23.623	-34.90	48.22	0.0000	0.0001	0
1984-12-13T12:00	0.892	-85.788	23.854	-40.45	40.50	0.0001	0.0002	0
1984-12-13T18:00	0.967	-85.873	24.212	-42.08	41.75	0.0001	0.0001	0
1984-12-14T00:00	1.055	-85.952	24.173	-43.63	36.19	0.0000	0.0000	0
1984-12-14T06:00	1.109	-86.043	24.040	-46.85	31.27	0.0001	0.0001	0
1984-12-14T12:00	1.177	-86.134	24.377	-48.77	35.28	0.0000	0.0000	0
1984-12-14T18:00	1.247	-86.232	24.325	-45.31	35.10	0.0001	0.0001	0
1984-12-15T00:00	1.314	-86.309	24.157	-34.47	28.34	0.0000	0.0000	0
1984-12-15T06:00	1.357	-86.366	24.085	-30.05	26.43	0.0001	0.0001	0
1984-12-15T12:00	1.418	-86.426	24.200	-26.52	35.70	0.0000	0.0000	0
1984-12-15T18:00	1.497	-86.469	24.066	-18.42	39.75	0.0001	0.0001	0
1984-12-16T00:00	1.573	-86.498	23.827	-13.31	32.74	0.0000	0.0000	0
1984-12-16T06:00	1.625	-86.521	23.867	-12.50	28.89	0.0001	0.0001	0
1984-12-16T12:00	1.686	-86.546	24.125	-12.40	26.11	0.0000	0.0000	0
1984-12-16T18:00	1.727	-86.569	24.100			0.0001	0.0001	0