Citation:

PANGAEA.406999

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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: 1.035167 * Median Longitude: 73.670000 * South-bound Latitude: 0.985000 * West-bound Longitude: 73.439000 * North-bound Latitude: 1.066000 * East-bound Longitude: 73.912000

Date/Time Start: 1999-03-20T06:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1999-03-23T00:00:00

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

Event(s):

SVP_9824499 (WMO23973) * Latitude: 0.985000 * Longitude: 73.439000 * Date/Time Start: 1999-03-20T06:00:00 * 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:

66 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
1999-03-20T06:00	1.066	73.912	29.561			0.0003	0.0005	1
1999-03-20T12:00	1.061	73.868	29.579	-23.03	-2.54	0.0013	0.0032	1
1999-03-20T18:00	1.056	73.823	29.561	-23.47	-2.66	0.0023	0.0060	1
1999-03-21T00:00	1.051	73.777	29.553	-23.66	-2.75	0.0029	0.0079	1
1999-03-21T06:00	1.046	73.731	29.578	-23.62	-2.83	0.0032	0.0085	1
1999-03-21T12:00	1.040	73.686	29.596	-23.35	-2.89	0.0029	0.0076	1
1999-03-21T18:00	1.034	73.641	29.579	-22.80	-2.94	0.0023	0.0056	1
1999-03-22T00:00	1.028	73.597	29.570	-21.65	-2.99	0.0014	0.0030	1
1999-03-22T06:00	1.023	73.557	29.595	-17.33	-3.05	0.0004	0.0007	1
1999-03-22T12:00	1.017	73.530	29.611	-20.06	-2.01	0.0000	0.0000	1
1999-03-22T18:00	1.015	73.479		-23.25	-8.01	0.0001	0.0001	1
1999-03-23T00:00	0.985	73.439				0.0001	0.0001	1