Citation:

PANGAEA.406692

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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: -7.684250 * Median Longitude: 88.944000 * South-bound Latitude: -7.913000 * West-bound Longitude: 88.266000 * North-bound Latitude: -7.385000 * East-bound Longitude: 89.762000

Date/Time Start: 1997-12-12T18:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1997-12-16T12:00:00

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

Event(s):

SVP_9729830 (WMO14917) * Latitude: -7.385000 * Longitude: 88.266000 * Date/Time Start: 1997-12-12T18:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1997-12-16T12:00:00 * Location: Indian 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:

92 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
1997-12-12T18:00	-7.913	89.762	27.790			0.0001	0.0001	1
1997-12-13T00:00	-7.868	89.613	27.772	-76.23	19.64	0.0000	0.0000	1
1997-12-13T06:00	-7.836	89.464	27.956	-67.00	12.94	0.0001	0.0002	1
1997-12-13T12:00	-7.817	89.351	28.000	-63.54	10.35	0.0000	0.0000	1
1997-12-13T18:00	-7.795	89.215	27.844	-57.65	8.81	0.0001	0.0001	1
1997-12-14T00:00	-7.783	89.125	27.758	-52.26	9.76	0.0000	0.0000	1
1997-12-14T06:00	-7.757	89.010	27.867	-51.18	10.81	0.0001	0.0002	1
1997-12-14T12:00	-7.741	88.924	27.905	-41.69	9.94	0.0000	0.0000	1
1997-12-14T18:00	-7.718	88.847	27.679	-39.01	15.77	0.0001	0.0001	1
1997-12-15T00:00	-7.679	88.772	27.618	-36.92	21.24	0.0001	0.0001	1
1997-12-15T06:00	-7.635	88.702	27.958	-36.92	24.02	0.0001	0.0002	1
1997-12-15T12:00	-7.585	88.627	28.059	-36.41	25.52	0.0000	0.0000	1
1997-12-15T18:00	-7.535	88.560	27.690	-38.57	28.39	0.0001	0.0001	1
1997-12-16T00:00	-7.474	88.476	27.697	-43.35	27.68	0.0000	0.0000	1
1997-12-16T06:00	-7.427	88.390	28.322	-53.78	22.87	0.0001	0.0001	1
1997-12-16T12:00	-7.385	88.266	28.506			0.0000	0.0000	1