Citation:

PANGAEA.406685

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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: 14.526154 * Median Longitude: -61.119308 * South-bound Latitude: 14.148000 * West-bound Longitude: -61.385000 * North-bound Latitude: 15.449000 * East-bound Longitude: -60.739000

Date/Time Start: 1998-06-11T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1998-06-17T06:00:00

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

Event(s):

SVP_9729819 (WMO41929) * Latitude: 15.449000 * Longitude: -61.022000 * Date/Time Start: 1998-06-11T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1998-06-17T06:00:00 * 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:

149 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
1998-06-11T00:00	14.156	-61.385	28.211			0.0001	0.0004	1
1998-06-11T06:00	14.149	-61.361	28.164	8.11	-2.15	0.0000	0.0000	1
1998-06-11T12:00	14.148	-61.353	28.176	2.96	-0.23	0.0012	0.0050	1
1998-06-11T18:00	14.148	-61.349	28.245	2.21	0.71	0.0027	0.0112	1
1998-06-12T00:00	14.150	-61.344	28.238	2.38	1.47	0.0038	0.0161	1
1998-06-12T06:00	14.154	-61.339	28.174	2.77	2.20	0.0043	0.0185	1
1998-06-12T12:00	14.159	-61.333	28.185	3.39	2.94	0.0043	0.0182	1
1998-06-12T18:00	14.165	-61.326	28.254	4.23	3.65	0.0036	0.0152	1
1998-06-13T00:00	14.173	-61.316	28.248	5.41	4.11	0.0024	0.0100	1
1998-06-13T06:00	14.181	-61.304	28.185	7.67	0.81	0.0009	0.0037	1
1998-06-13T12:00	14.176	-61.285	28.198	12.39	-6.73	0.0001	0.0005	1
1998-06-13T18:00	14.155	-61.254	28.284	18.43	8.59	0.0001	0.0004	1
1998-06-14T00:00	14.210	-61.212	28.278	22.44	32.53	0.0007	0.0029	1
1998-06-14T06:00	14.282	-61.164	28.206	25.15	41.39	0.0001	0.0006	1
1998-06-14T12:00	14.371	-61.111	28.141	27.41	48.13	0.0009	0.0039	1
1998-06-14T18:00	14.470	-61.055	28.114	28.12	51.69	0.0025	0.0106	1
1998-06-15T00:00	14.573	-60.998	28.112	27.85	53.62	0.0039	0.0165	1
1998-06-15T06:00	14.679	-60.943	28.074	26.97	54.80	0.0048	0.0206	1
1998-06-15T12:00	14.787	-60.890	28.009	25.48	55.40	0.0051	0.0221	1
1998-06-15T18:00	14.896	-60.841	27.979	23.18	55.50	0.0049	0.0211	1
1998-06-16T00:00	15.004	-60.797	27.977	19.76	55.08	0.0041	0.0175	1
1998-06-16T06:00	15.111	-60.761	27.940	14.34	54.05	0.0028	0.0119	1
1998-06-16T12:00	15.215	-60.739	27.892	3.02	52.21	0.0013	0.0052	1
1998-06-16T18:00	15.314	-60.749		-32.65	48.75	0.0000	0.0000	1
1998-06-17T00:00	15.405	-60.871		-67.72	34.61	0.0002	0.0007	1
1998-06-17T06:00	15.449	-61.022				0.0001	0.0003	1