Citation:

PANGAEA.403238

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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: 31.698667 * Median Longitude: -118.442933 * South-bound Latitude: 31.550000 * West-bound Longitude: -118.722000 * North-bound Latitude: 32.041000 * East-bound Longitude: -118.191000

Date/Time Start: 1988-09-11T18:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1988-09-15T06:00:00

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

Event(s):

SVP_7709740 (WMO52057) * Latitude: 31.550000 * Longitude: -118.191000 * Date/Time Start: 1988-09-11T18:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1988-09-15T06:00:00 * 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	Current velocity, east-west	Cur vel U	cm/s	Buoy, drifting (BUOY_DRIFT)
6	Current velocity, north-south	Cur vel V	cm/s	Buoy, drifting (BUOY_DRIFT)
7	Latitude, error	Latitude e		Buoy, drifting (BUOY_DRIFT)
8	Longitude, error	Longitude e		Buoy, drifting (BUOY_DRIFT)
9	Code	Code		Buoy, drifting (BUOY_DRIFT)	Drogue, off=0/on=1

License:

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

Size:

71 data points

Data

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1 Date/Time	2 Latitude	3 Longitude	5 Cur vel U [cm/s]	6 Cur vel V [cm/s]	7 Latitude e	8 Longitude e	9 Code
1988-09-11T18:00	32.041	-118.722			0.0000	0.0000	1
1988-09-12T00:00	31.955	-118.651	22.91	-42.27	0.0000	0.0000	1
1988-09-12T06:00	31.876	-118.618	19.72	-35.31	0.0001	0.0001	1
1988-09-12T12:00	31.817	-118.561	21.58	-33.80	0.0000	0.0000	1
1988-09-12T18:00	31.744	-118.519	12.30	-28.16	0.0001	0.0001	1
1988-09-13T00:00	31.707	-118.505	9.73	-17.60	0.0000	0.0000	1
1988-09-13T06:00	31.675	-118.475	14.75	-15.41	0.0001	0.0001	1
1988-09-13T12:00	31.647	-118.438	14.85	-17.42	0.0000	0.0000	1
1988-09-13T18:00	31.608	-118.407	9.84	-10.58	0.0001	0.0001	1
1988-09-14T00:00	31.606	-118.393	15.67	-7.79	0.0000	0.0000	1
1988-09-14T06:00	31.577	-118.336	18.69	-12.76	0.0001	0.0001	1
1988-09-14T12:00	31.556	-118.308	11.96	-5.42	0.0000	0.0000	1
1988-09-14T18:00	31.556	-118.282	15.51	2.31	0.0000	0.0000	1
1988-09-15T00:00	31.565	-118.238	19.88	-1.48	0.0000	0.0000	1
1988-09-15T06:00	31.550	-118.191			0.0001	0.0000	1