Citation:

PANGAEA.405918

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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: 0.426346 * Median Longitude: -151.859962 * South-bound Latitude: -0.408000 * West-bound Longitude: -153.252000 * North-bound Latitude: 0.783000 * East-bound Longitude: -150.913000

Date/Time Start: 1996-08-02T18:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1996-08-09T00:00:00

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

Event(s):

SVP_9525773 (WMO46582) * Latitude: 0.783000 * Longitude: -153.252000 * Date/Time Start: 1996-08-02T18:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1996-08-09T00:00:00 * Location: South 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:

152 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
1996-08-02T18:00	-0.408	-150.913	25.811			0.0000	0.0000	1
1996-08-03T00:00	-0.340	-151.009	25.995	-42.55	38.02	0.0000	0.0000	1
1996-08-03T06:00	-0.259	-151.078	25.947	-35.30	42.27	0.0000	0.0000	1
1996-08-03T12:00	-0.174	-151.146	25.731	-34.74	44.13	0.0012	0.0013	1
1996-08-03T18:00	-0.087	-151.213	25.719	-33.97	45.22	0.0029	0.0037	1
1996-08-04T00:00	0.002	-151.278	25.875	-33.04	45.85	0.0044	0.0060	1
1996-08-04T06:00	0.092	-151.341	25.828	-32.15	46.13	0.0054	0.0076	1
1996-08-04T12:00	0.183	-151.403	25.613	-31.31	46.07	0.0057	0.0081	1
1996-08-04T18:00	0.272	-151.463	25.600	-30.47	45.67	0.0052	0.0073	1
1996-08-05T00:00	0.361	-151.521	25.756	-29.62	44.83	0.0041	0.0055	1
1996-08-05T06:00	0.447	-151.578	25.709	-28.80	43.30	0.0025	0.0031	1
1996-08-05T12:00	0.530	-151.633	25.497	-29.37	37.26	0.0008	0.0008	1
1996-08-05T18:00	0.593	-151.692	25.476	-23.43	36.27	0.0000	0.0000	1
1996-08-06T00:00	0.672	-151.724	25.737	-18.84	35.50	0.0000	0.0000	1
1996-08-06T06:00	0.732	-151.765	25.844	-32.85	20.71	0.0001	0.0001	1
1996-08-06T12:00	0.753	-151.851	25.752	-49.86	8.26	0.0015	0.0016	1
1996-08-06T18:00	0.764	-151.959	25.781	-58.36	4.51	0.0031	0.0039	1
1996-08-07T00:00	0.770	-152.078	26.058	-63.82	2.47	0.0044	0.0059	1
1996-08-07T06:00	0.774	-152.206	26.213	-67.84	1.14	0.0050	0.0070	1
1996-08-07T12:00	0.775	-152.341	26.121	-70.98	0.23	0.0050	0.0069	1
1996-08-07T18:00	0.774	-152.482	26.150	-73.52	-0.39	0.0042	0.0056	1
1996-08-08T00:00	0.773	-152.627	26.426	-75.83	-0.80	0.0028	0.0035	1
1996-08-08T06:00	0.771	-152.776	26.581	-79.09	-1.63	0.0011	0.0012	1
1996-08-08T12:00	0.767	-152.934	26.489	-82.37	-1.63	0.0000	0.0000	1
1996-08-08T18:00	0.765	-153.096	26.519	-82.10	4.21	0.0001	0.0000	1
1996-08-09T00:00	0.783	-153.252	26.795			0.0000	0.0000	1