Citation:

PANGAEA.406762

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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: -0.408480 * Median Longitude: -94.215080 * South-bound Latitude: -0.481000 * West-bound Longitude: -95.105000 * North-bound Latitude: -0.326000 * East-bound Longitude: -92.803000

Date/Time Start: 1998-02-19T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1998-02-25T00:00:00

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

Event(s):

SVP_9730653 (WMO32807) * Latitude: -0.373000 * Longitude: -92.803000 * Date/Time Start: 1998-02-19T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1998-02-25T00:00:00 * 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:

144 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
1998-02-19T00:00	-0.448	-95.105	30.078			0.0000	0.0000
1998-02-19T06:00	-0.422	-95.078	29.833	15.00	11.66	0.0004	0.0003
1998-02-19T12:00	-0.403	-95.047	29.787	16.50	9.39	0.0011	0.0010
1998-02-19T18:00	-0.385	-95.014	29.860	17.76	8.52	0.0018	0.0018
1998-02-20T00:00	-0.369	-94.978	29.756	19.27	7.74	0.0022	0.0023
1998-02-20T06:00	-0.355	-94.939	29.533	21.18	6.87	0.0023	0.0024
1998-02-20T12:00	-0.343	-94.896	29.487	23.70	5.76	0.0021	0.0021
1998-02-20T18:00	-0.333	-94.847	29.561	27.08	4.23	0.0015	0.0015
1998-02-21T00:00	-0.326	-94.791	29.457	32.21	1.71	0.0008	0.0007
1998-02-21T06:00	-0.326	-94.722	29.233	42.61	-6.22	0.0001	0.0001
1998-02-21T12:00	-0.350	-94.625	29.213	52.47	-14.70	0.0000	0.0000
1998-02-21T18:00	-0.383	-94.519	29.260	56.14	-15.56	0.0001	0.0001
1998-02-22T00:00	-0.411	-94.408	29.248	58.31	-9.09	0.0000	0.0000
1998-02-22T06:00	-0.419	-94.292	28.790	63.59	-5.32	0.0003	0.0002
1998-02-22T12:00	-0.432	-94.161	28.567	69.36	-6.54	0.0010	0.0009
1998-02-22T18:00	-0.444	-94.023	29.029	71.87	-6.04	0.0017	0.0017
1998-02-23T00:00	-0.456	-93.882	29.210	73.27	-5.38	0.0021	0.0022
1998-02-23T06:00	-0.465	-93.739	28.706	73.87	-4.54	0.0022	0.0023
1998-02-23T12:00	-0.473	-93.595	28.483	73.76	-3.46	0.0020	0.0020
1998-02-23T18:00	-0.479	-93.453	28.945	72.93	-1.93	0.0015	0.0014
1998-02-24T00:00	-0.481	-93.312	29.126	70.86	0.61	0.0007	0.0006
1998-02-24T06:00	-0.476	-93.178	28.622	66.79	8.18	0.0001	0.0001
1998-02-24T12:00	-0.449	-93.053	28.432	67.06	16.82	0.0001	0.0001
1998-02-24T18:00	-0.411	-92.917		64.40	19.44	0.0001	0.0001
1998-02-25T00:00	-0.373	-92.803				0.0000	0.0000