Citation:

PANGAEA.404859

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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: 50.495679 * Median Longitude: -167.000179 * South-bound Latitude: 50.144000 * West-bound Longitude: -167.593000 * North-bound Latitude: 50.995000 * East-bound Longitude: -166.103000

Date/Time Start: 1992-11-17T06:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1992-11-24T00:00:00

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

Event(s):

SVP_9315366 (WMO46912) * Latitude: 50.649000 * Longitude: -166.103000 * Date/Time Start: 1992-11-17T06:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1992-11-24T00:00:00 * 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:

136 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
1992-11-17T06:00	50.307	-167.593			0.0000	0.0000
1992-11-17T12:00	50.273	-167.516	16.45	-30.86	0.0001	0.0001
1992-11-17T18:00	50.187	-167.493	6.33	-20.92	0.0000	0.0000
1992-11-18T00:00	50.192	-167.478	19.52	-11.00	0.0000	0.0000
1992-11-18T06:00	50.144	-167.376	15.65	-10.59	0.0000	0.0000
1992-11-18T12:00	50.151	-167.383	15.86	12.87	0.0001	0.0001
1992-11-18T18:00	50.194	-167.280	23.42	6.77	0.0000	0.0000
1992-11-19T00:00	50.177	-167.242	22.51	10.49	0.0000	0.0000
1992-11-19T06:00	50.235	-167.143	46.97	14.22	0.0000	0.0000
1992-11-19T12:00	50.232	-166.957	40.56	-6.89	0.0001	0.0001
1992-11-19T18:00	50.208	-166.898	9.93	16.71	0.0000	0.0000
1992-11-20T00:00	50.297	-166.897	6.38	33.51	0.0000	0.0000
1992-11-20T06:00	50.338	-166.859	3.07	30.75	0.0000	0.0000
1992-11-20T12:00	50.416	-166.878	-3.90	43.46	0.0004	0.0003
1992-11-20T18:00	50.507	-166.883	-10.27	32.57	0.0002	0.0002
1992-11-21T00:00	50.543	-166.941	-23.95	33.37	0.0000	0.0000
1992-11-21T06:00	50.636	-167.029	-10.01	31.32	0.0000	0.0000
1992-11-21T12:00	50.664	-167.002	-4.57	17.12	0.0001	0.0000
1992-11-21T18:00	50.703	-167.057	-7.15	27.39	0.0000	0.0000
1992-11-22T00:00	50.771	-167.046	9.51	19.96	0.0000	0.0000
1992-11-22T06:00	50.780	-166.999	14.79	23.88	0.0000	0.0000
1992-11-22T12:00	50.863	-166.955	28.82	32.71	0.0001	0.0000
1992-11-22T18:00	50.907	-166.822	22.24	22.87	0.0000	0.0000
1992-11-23T00:00	50.952	-166.818	29.41	22.71	0.0000	0.0000
1992-11-23T06:00	50.995	-166.641	69.11	-33.69	0.0000	0.0000
1992-11-23T12:00	50.821	-166.395	52.24	-66.48	0.0000	0.0000
1992-11-23T18:00	50.737	-166.321	47.83	-44.01	0.0001	0.0000
1992-11-24T00:00	50.649	-166.103			0.0000	0.0000