Citation:

PANGAEA.403094

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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: 7.527350 * Median Longitude: -143.577800 * South-bound Latitude: 7.014000 * West-bound Longitude: -144.394000 * North-bound Latitude: 7.894000 * East-bound Longitude: -142.593000

Date/Time Start: 1987-10-10T18:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1987-10-15T12:00:00

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

Event(s):

SVP_7706853 (WMO52805) * Latitude: 7.864000 * Longitude: -142.593000 * Date/Time Start: 1987-10-10T18:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1987-10-15T12:00:00 * 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:

116 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
1987-10-10T18:00	7.014	-144.394	29.310			0.0000	0.0000	1
1987-10-11T00:00	7.038	-144.305	29.532	43.54	11.34	0.0000	0.0000	1
1987-10-11T06:00	7.058	-144.224	29.456	37.69	14.41	0.0000	0.0000	1
1987-10-11T12:00	7.094	-144.157	29.333	29.68	19.41	0.0000	0.0000	1
1987-10-11T18:00	7.134	-144.107	29.249	28.31	28.03	0.0000	0.0000	1
1987-10-12T00:00	7.203	-144.046	29.298	32.84	41.81	0.0000	0.0000	1
1987-10-12T06:00	7.297	-143.979	29.454	39.24	59.96	0.0000	0.0000	1
1987-10-12T12:00	7.438	-143.893	29.342	47.25	66.88	0.0000	0.0000	1
1987-10-12T18:00	7.559	-143.794	29.278	57.04	55.15	0.0000	0.0000	1
1987-10-13T00:00	7.653	-143.670	29.278	63.63	32.57	0.0000	0.0000	1
1987-10-13T06:00	7.686	-143.545	29.246	58.79	16.04	0.0000	0.0000	1
1987-10-13T12:00	7.716	-143.439	29.240	49.20	11.86	0.0000	0.0000	1
1987-10-13T18:00	7.732	-143.352	29.306	44.55	9.70	0.0000	0.0000	1
1987-10-14T00:00	7.753	-143.265	29.408	43.39	17.09	0.0000	0.0000	1
1987-10-14T06:00	7.799	-143.182	29.150	44.90	22.45	0.0001	0.0001	1
1987-10-14T12:00	7.841	-143.089	28.973	55.17	22.60	0.0000	0.0000	1
1987-10-14T18:00	7.887	-142.966	29.075	63.77	13.50	0.0000	0.0000	1
1987-10-15T00:00	7.894	-142.839	29.193	63.62	-0.06	0.0000	0.0000	1
1987-10-15T06:00	7.887	-142.717	29.204	62.81	-7.51	0.0000	0.0000	1
1987-10-15T12:00	7.864	-142.593	29.131			0.0000	0.0000	1