Citation:

PANGAEA.406937

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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: 11.156519 * Median Longitude: -76.793296 * South-bound Latitude: 10.938000 * West-bound Longitude: -77.045000 * North-bound Latitude: 11.472000 * East-bound Longitude: -76.698000

Date/Time Start: 1998-12-30T12:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1999-01-06T00:00:00

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

Event(s):

SVP_9816368 (WMO41570) * Latitude: 11.472000 * Longitude: -77.045000 * Date/Time Start: 1998-12-30T12:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1999-01-06T00:00:00 * 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:

156 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
1998-12-30T12:00	10.955	-76.703	28.114			0.0000	0.0001	1
1998-12-30T18:00	10.942	-76.703	28.327	-0.17	-2.61	0.0000	0.0001	1
1998-12-31T00:00	10.945	-76.704	28.247	1.37	-1.02	0.0000	0.0000	1
1998-12-31T06:00	10.938	-76.698	28.113	-6.25	-1.16	0.0001	0.0003	1
1998-12-31T12:00	10.941	-76.729	28.112	-10.99	4.11	0.0000	0.0001	1
1998-12-31T18:00	10.955	-76.741	28.172	-2.16	9.25	0.0004	0.0014	1
1999-01-01T00:00	10.977	-76.737	28.171	1.37	13.03	0.0000	0.0000	1
1999-01-01T06:00	11.005	-76.736	28.131	-0.08	10.01	0.0001	0.0004	1
1999-01-01T12:00	11.016	-76.738	28.106	0.57	5.15	0.0000	0.0000	1
1999-01-01T18:00	11.026	-76.733	28.180	0.23	4.27	0.0001	0.0003	1
1999-01-02T00:00	11.032	-76.737	28.188	-4.25	7.24	0.0000	0.0001	1
1999-01-02T06:00	11.054	-76.750	28.154	-4.72	14.68	0.0000	0.0001	1
1999-01-02T12:00	11.090	-76.755	28.130	-3.91	19.52	0.0000	0.0000	1
1999-01-02T18:00	11.130	-76.766	28.165	-4.08	18.44	0.0002	0.0005	1
1999-01-03T00:00	11.162	-76.771	28.178	-3.23	15.90	0.0002	0.0006	1
1999-01-03T06:00	11.192	-76.778	28.119	1.50	15.57	0.0003	0.0009	1
1999-01-03T12:00	11.223	-76.766	28.079	0.96	16.77	0.0000	0.0000	1
1999-01-03T18:00	11.258	-76.775	28.155	-5.39	17.20	0.0001	0.0002	1
1999-01-04T00:00	11.290	-76.787	28.182	-5.92	11.53	0.0000	0.0000	1
1999-01-04T06:00	11.303	-76.798	28.091	-9.59	5.51	0.0001	0.0004	1
1999-01-04T12:00	11.311	-76.825	28.015	-16.33	9.48	0.0000	0.0001	1
1999-01-04T18:00	11.340	-76.863	28.038	-19.54	13.73	0.0001	0.0002	1
1999-01-05T00:00	11.365	-76.902	28.036	-14.25	16.81	0.0000	0.0000	1
1999-01-05T06:00	11.405	-76.919	28.003	-14.62	18.06	0.0001	0.0003	1
1999-01-05T12:00	11.435	-76.960	27.972	-20.42	15.12	0.0000	0.0001	1
1999-01-05T18:00	11.464	-77.000		-21.47	9.46	0.0001	0.0002	1
1999-01-06T00:00	11.472	-77.045				0.0000	0.0000	1