Citation:

PANGAEA.406860

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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: 1.043963 * Median Longitude: 74.126333 * South-bound Latitude: 0.889000 * West-bound Longitude: 73.572000 * North-bound Latitude: 1.238000 * East-bound Longitude: 74.959000

Date/Time Start: 1999-03-16T12:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1999-03-23T00:00:00

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

Event(s):

SVP_9809947 (WMO23904) * Latitude: 0.889000 * Longitude: 73.572000 * Date/Time Start: 1999-03-16T12:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1999-03-23T00:00:00 * Location: Lakshadweep 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:

158 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
1999-03-16T12:00	1.238	74.959	29.924			0.0000	0.0001	1
1999-03-16T18:00	1.217	74.873	29.634	-41.91	-11.32	0.0002	0.0002	1
1999-03-17T00:00	1.194	74.796	29.328	-36.93	-11.03	0.0000	0.0000	1
1999-03-17T06:00	1.174	74.729	29.417	-36.29	-8.41	0.0003	0.0005	1
1999-03-17T12:00	1.161	74.655	29.588	-38.61	-5.95	0.0013	0.0026	1
1999-03-17T18:00	1.150	74.579	29.471	-39.25	-5.39	0.0022	0.0052	1
1999-03-18T00:00	1.140	74.503	29.301	-39.28	-5.25	0.0029	0.0073	1
1999-03-18T06:00	1.130	74.427	29.421	-38.93	-5.35	0.0032	0.0082	1
1999-03-18T12:00	1.119	74.352	29.592	-38.20	-5.66	0.0031	0.0079	1
1999-03-18T18:00	1.108	74.279	29.474	-37.02	-6.26	0.0026	0.0063	1
1999-03-19T00:00	1.095	74.208	29.305	-35.17	-7.36	0.0017	0.0039	1
1999-03-19T06:00	1.079	74.142	29.424	-31.49	-10.93	0.0007	0.0014	1
1999-03-19T12:00	1.052	74.086	29.573	-27.31	-15.42	0.0000	0.0000	1
1999-03-19T18:00	1.019	74.036	29.369	-26.93	-18.37	0.0001	0.0002	1
1999-03-20T00:00	0.980	73.982	29.258	-25.12	-15.31	0.0000	0.0000	1
1999-03-20T06:00	0.959	73.939	29.445	-21.76	-7.12	0.0002	0.0003	1
1999-03-20T12:00	0.952	73.897	29.513	-21.56	-2.17	0.0011	0.0024	1
1999-03-20T18:00	0.950	73.855	29.381	-21.50	-0.50	0.0021	0.0048	1
1999-03-21T00:00	0.950	73.814	29.307	-21.03	0.32	0.0027	0.0067	1
1999-03-21T06:00	0.952	73.773	29.415	-20.36	0.70	0.0030	0.0075	1
1999-03-21T12:00	0.953	73.735	29.463	-19.47	0.74	0.0028	0.0070	1
1999-03-21T18:00	0.955	73.698	29.331	-18.22	0.43	0.0022	0.0053	1
1999-03-22T00:00	0.955	73.664	29.258	-16.21	-0.39	0.0014	0.0029	1
1999-03-22T06:00	0.953	73.635	29.365	-10.42	-3.08	0.0004	0.0007	1
1999-03-22T12:00	0.943	73.623	29.417	-9.11	-8.56	0.0000	0.0000	1
1999-03-22T18:00	0.920	73.600	29.341	-13.20	-13.75	0.0001	0.0001	1
1999-03-23T00:00	0.889	73.572	29.326			0.0001	0.0001	1