Citation:

PANGAEA.403419

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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: 2.503379 * Median Longitude: 166.612931 * South-bound Latitude: 1.753000 * West-bound Longitude: 165.235000 * North-bound Latitude: 3.712000 * East-bound Longitude: 168.504000

Date/Time Start: 1988-10-22T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1988-10-29T00:00:00

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

Event(s):

SVP_7711144 (WMO51807) * Latitude: 3.712000 * Longitude: 165.235000 * Date/Time Start: 1988-10-22T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1988-10-29T00:00:00 * 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:

170 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
1988-10-22T00:00	1.753	168.504	27.618			0.0001	0.0001
1988-10-22T06:00	1.753	168.373	27.606	-67.13	1.72	0.0000	0.0000
1988-10-22T12:00	1.759	168.243	27.528	-68.44	4.83	0.0002	0.0002
1988-10-22T18:00	1.772	168.108	27.454	-69.49	9.93	0.0000	0.0000
1988-10-23T00:00	1.798	167.973	27.608	-70.65	11.96	0.0002	0.0002
1988-10-23T06:00	1.819	167.833	27.688	-70.56	14.40	0.0000	0.0000
1988-10-23T12:00	1.854	167.699	27.502	-71.84	20.01	0.0001	0.0001
1988-10-23T18:00	1.897	167.554	27.455	-71.83	24.38	0.0000	0.0000
1988-10-24T00:00	1.949	167.421	27.632	-71.09	24.60	0.0001	0.0001
1988-10-24T06:00	1.993	167.278	27.687	-81.67	23.78	0.0000	0.0000
1988-10-24T12:00	2.042	167.103	27.524	-86.85	30.06	0.0001	0.0001
1988-10-24T18:00	2.111	166.941	27.459	-85.11	35.64	0.0000	0.0000
1988-10-25T00:00	2.182	166.773	27.601	-90.42	35.57	0.0001	0.0001
1988-10-25T06:00	2.249	166.590	27.691	-86.51	37.44	0.0001	0.0001
1988-10-25T12:00	2.328	166.437	27.554	-78.91	43.58	0.0001	0.0001
1988-10-25T18:00	2.420	166.284	27.506	-80.49	47.69	0.0000	0.0000
1988-10-26T00:00	2.514	166.124	27.666	-76.91	52.31	0.0001	0.0001
1988-10-26T06:00	2.624	165.985	27.762	-69.42	55.69	0.0000	0.0000
1988-10-26T12:00	2.732	165.854	27.702	-60.07	57.97	0.0002	0.0002
1988-10-26T18:00	2.850	165.751	27.686	-50.12	61.26	0.0000	0.0000
1988-10-27T00:00	2.971	165.660	27.808	-43.02	60.47	0.0002	0.0002
1988-10-27T06:00	3.087	165.584	27.912	-33.26	53.35	0.0000	0.0000
1988-10-27T12:00	3.179	165.530	27.815	-27.41	44.99	0.0001	0.0001
1988-10-27T18:00	3.262	165.478	27.881	-27.28	44.20	0.0000	0.0000
1988-10-28T00:00	3.352	165.424	28.327	-20.24	44.35	0.0001	0.0001
1988-10-28T06:00	3.436	165.399	28.535	-19.98	49.38	0.0000	0.0000
1988-10-28T12:00	3.545	165.347	28.314	-27.98	56.17	0.0002	0.0002
1988-10-28T18:00	3.655	165.290	28.135	-28.65	42.71	0.0001	0.0001
1988-10-29T00:00	3.712	165.235	28.336			0.0001	0.0002