Citation:

PANGAEA.406681

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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: 11.639500 * Median Longitude: -62.936071 * South-bound Latitude: 11.506000 * West-bound Longitude: -63.401000 * North-bound Latitude: 11.700000 * East-bound Longitude: -62.351000

Date/Time Start: 1998-06-13T12:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1998-06-16T18:00:00

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

Event(s):

SVP_9729814 (WMO41927) * Latitude: 11.506000 * Longitude: -63.401000 * Date/Time Start: 1998-06-13T12:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1998-06-16T18:00:00 * Location: Caribbean Sea * 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:

80 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
1998-06-13T12:00	11.630	-62.351	26.841			0.0001	0.0006	1
1998-06-13T18:00	11.687	-62.493	26.933	-60.91	18.15	0.0001	0.0002	1
1998-06-14T00:00	11.700	-62.593	26.934	-46.97	3.05	0.0011	0.0046	1
1998-06-14T06:00	11.699	-62.679	27.065	-42.83	-1.83	0.0027	0.0113	1
1998-06-14T12:00	11.693	-62.763	27.141	-41.59	-3.67	0.0040	0.0173	1
1998-06-14T18:00	11.685	-62.844	27.079	-40.76	-4.88	0.0050	0.0213	1
1998-06-15T00:00	11.674	-62.924	27.076	-40.01	-5.82	0.0053	0.0229	1
1998-06-15T06:00	11.662	-63.003	27.215	-39.18	-6.65	0.0051	0.0219	1
1998-06-15T12:00	11.648	-63.079	27.295	-38.12	-7.51	0.0043	0.0184	1
1998-06-15T18:00	11.632	-63.154	27.233	-36.55	-8.61	0.0030	0.0128	1
1998-06-16T00:00	11.614	-63.224	27.227	-33.14	-10.89	0.0015	0.0061	1
1998-06-16T06:00	11.590	-63.285	27.366	-22.22	-20.86	0.0001	0.0004	1
1998-06-16T12:00	11.533	-63.312	27.427	-29.31	-21.40	0.0001	0.0003	1
1998-06-16T18:00	11.506	-63.401	27.515			0.0000	0.0000	1