Citation:

PANGAEA.403102

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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: 11.435667 * Median Longitude: -95.175333 * South-bound Latitude: 11.188000 * West-bound Longitude: -95.246000 * North-bound Latitude: 11.590000 * East-bound Longitude: -95.115000

Date/Time Start: 1987-10-24T12:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1987-10-25T18:00:00

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

Event(s):

SVP_7706861 (WMO32516) * Latitude: 11.590000 * Longitude: -95.246000 * Date/Time Start: 1987-10-24T12:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1987-10-25T18:00:00 * 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:

32 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
1987-10-24T12:00	11.188	-95.115	29.143			0.0000	0.0000	1
1987-10-24T18:00	11.333	-95.153	29.157	-13.70	65.36	0.0001	0.0001	1
1987-10-25T00:00	11.443	-95.169	29.115	-5.66	45.70	0.0000	0.0000	1
1987-10-25T06:00	11.511	-95.175	29.036	-6.37	27.09	0.0000	0.0000	1
1987-10-25T12:00	11.549	-95.194	29.025	-17.79	20.24	0.0000	0.0000	1
1987-10-25T18:00	11.590	-95.246	29.115			0.0000	0.0000	1