Citation:

PANGAEA.404784

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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: 38.404714 * Median Longitude: -9.786071 * South-bound Latitude: 38.198000 * West-bound Longitude: -9.929000 * North-bound Latitude: 38.613000 * East-bound Longitude: -9.668000

Date/Time Start: 1993-05-16T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1993-05-22T18:00:00

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

Event(s):

SVP_9300680 (WMO999) * Latitude: 38.225000 * Longitude: -9.668000 * Date/Time Start: 1993-05-16T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1993-05-22T18:00:00 * Location: South Atlantic 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:

164 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
1993-05-16T00:00	38.613	-9.929	16.816			0.0005	0.0006	1
1993-05-16T06:00	38.585	-9.903	16.723	12.34	-6.86	0.0002	0.0002	1
1993-05-16T12:00	38.586	-9.868	16.739	15.96	-4.61	0.0003	0.0004	1
1993-05-16T18:00	38.567	-9.824	16.837	11.48	-12.60	0.0001	0.0001	1
1993-05-17T00:00	38.537	-9.811	16.781	3.00	-13.14	0.0010	0.0013	1
1993-05-17T06:00	38.516	-9.809	16.823	0.34	-10.25	0.0014	0.0019	1
1993-05-17T12:00	38.497	-9.810	16.859	-0.36	-5.08	0.0006	0.0008	1
1993-05-17T18:00	38.496	-9.811	16.786	3.49	-3.99	0.0002	0.0002	1
1993-05-18T00:00	38.482	-9.792	16.642	7.96	-12.49	0.0005	0.0006	1
1993-05-18T06:00	38.448	-9.772	16.581	0.94	-14.64	0.0000	0.0001	1
1993-05-18T12:00	38.425	-9.788	16.681	2.68	-4.03	0.0002	0.0003	1
1993-05-18T18:00	38.432	-9.758	16.778	9.04	-2.85	0.0001	0.0001	1
1993-05-19T00:00	38.414	-9.743	16.668	-0.70	-18.73	0.0005	0.0006	1
1993-05-19T06:00	38.359	-9.762	16.620	-9.61	-8.30	0.0001	0.0001	1
1993-05-19T12:00	38.381	-9.790	16.684	-3.22	12.35	0.0002	0.0003	1
1993-05-19T18:00	38.407	-9.778	16.768	-2.90	1.19	0.0005	0.0007	1
1993-05-20T00:00	38.386	-9.805	16.720	-10.25	-11.71	0.0012	0.0016	1
1993-05-20T06:00	38.361	-9.828	16.661	1.88	-9.32	0.0006	0.0008	1
1993-05-20T12:00	38.350	-9.796	16.765	15.85	-4.48	0.0003	0.0004	1
1993-05-20T18:00	38.344	-9.750	16.867	-6.65	-3.78	0.0001	0.0001	1
1993-05-21T00:00	38.335	-9.828	16.729	-18.93	-4.07	0.0005	0.0007	1
1993-05-21T06:00	38.328	-9.844	16.650	18.73	-10.26	0.0001	0.0001	1
1993-05-21T12:00	38.295	-9.736	16.794	25.83	-18.31	0.0003	0.0004	1
1993-05-21T18:00	38.257	-9.716	16.956	5.94	-9.97	0.0003	0.0003	1
1993-05-22T00:00	38.256	-9.707	16.870	3.20	-1.26	0.0008	0.0011	1
1993-05-22T06:00	38.252	-9.700	16.797	4.55	-14.89	0.0000	0.0001	1
1993-05-22T12:00	38.198	-9.684	16.882	6.52	-6.91	0.0002	0.0002	1
1993-05-22T18:00	38.225	-9.668	16.970			0.0001	0.0002	1