Citation:

PANGAEA.404646

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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: -63.975037 * Median Longitude: -61.675852 * South-bound Latitude: -64.180000 * West-bound Longitude: -61.958000 * North-bound Latitude: -63.873000 * East-bound Longitude: -61.518000

Date/Time Start: 1991-12-17T12:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1991-12-24T00:00:00

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

Event(s):

SVP_9115851 (WMO32550) * Latitude: -63.965000 * Longitude: -61.518000 * Date/Time Start: 1991-12-17T12:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1991-12-24T00:00:00 * Location: Drake Passage * 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:

158 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
1991-12-17T12:00	-64.180	-61.937	-0.166			0.0000	0.0001
1991-12-17T18:00	-64.156	-61.958	0.172	-0.22	11.46	0.0000	0.0000
1991-12-18T00:00	-64.136	-61.939	0.255	1.92	12.05	0.0000	0.0001
1991-12-18T06:00	-64.109	-61.941	0.219	3.32	14.14	0.0000	0.0000
1991-12-18T12:00	-64.081	-61.910	0.287	7.69	14.55	0.0015	0.0020
1991-12-18T18:00	-64.053	-61.873	0.302	8.69	14.79	0.0032	0.0044
1991-12-19T00:00	-64.024	-61.833	0.324	9.20	14.87	0.0044	0.0061
1991-12-19T06:00	-63.995	-61.792	0.408	9.48	14.77	0.0049	0.0068
1991-12-19T12:00	-63.966	-61.750	0.488	9.59	14.46	0.0046	0.0063
1991-12-19T18:00	-63.939	-61.707	0.505	9.58	13.88	0.0035	0.0048
1991-12-20T00:00	-63.913	-61.665	0.525	9.53	12.72	0.0018	0.0025
1991-12-20T06:00	-63.889	-61.623	0.603	8.63	8.15	0.0002	0.0002
1991-12-20T12:00	-63.881	-61.589	0.598	6.68	4.22	0.0000	0.0000
1991-12-20T18:00	-63.873	-61.565	0.495	5.01	-1.16	0.0000	0.0000
1991-12-21T00:00	-63.886	-61.545	0.393	1.51	-7.94	0.0001	0.0001
1991-12-21T06:00	-63.904	-61.551	0.206	-0.57	-7.13	0.0001	0.0001
1991-12-21T12:00	-63.913	-61.550	0.098	-0.11	-3.94	0.0017	0.0023
1991-12-21T18:00	-63.919	-61.552	0.150	-0.52	-2.90	0.0034	0.0047
1991-12-22T00:00	-63.924	-61.555	0.203	-0.60	-2.62	0.0046	0.0063
1991-12-22T06:00	-63.929	-61.558	0.094	-0.61	-2.51	0.0050	0.0069
1991-12-22T12:00	-63.934	-61.560	-0.017	-0.58	-2.50	0.0045	0.0063
1991-12-22T18:00	-63.939	-61.563	0.034	-0.49	-2.61	0.0034	0.0046
1991-12-23T00:00	-63.944	-61.565	0.087	-0.19	-3.11	0.0016	0.0022
1991-12-23T06:00	-63.951	-61.564	-0.021	1.96	-5.23	0.0001	0.0001
1991-12-23T12:00	-63.965	-61.547	-0.061	2.99	-1.70	0.0000	0.0000
1991-12-23T18:00	-63.958	-61.538	0.153	3.30	-0.05	0.0000	0.0001
1991-12-24T00:00	-63.965	-61.518	0.089			0.0000	0.0000