Citation:

PANGAEA.407228

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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: 62.125600 * Median Longitude: -41.344050 * South-bound Latitude: 61.391000 * West-bound Longitude: -41.536000 * North-bound Latitude: 62.657000 * East-bound Longitude: -41.037000

Date/Time Start: 1998-01-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1998-01-05T18:00:00

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

Event(s):

SVP_1969896 * Latitude Start: 62.657000 * Longitude Start: -41.037000 * Latitude End: 61.391000 * Longitude End: -41.536000 * Date/Time Start: 1998-01-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1998-01-05T18:00:00 * Location: Greenland 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:

118 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
1998-01-01T00:00	62.657	-41.037	2.620	-24.09	-23.62	0.0051	0.0221	1
1998-01-01T06:00	62.612	-41.138	2.808	-23.88	-22.77	0.0050	0.0214	1
1998-01-01T12:00	62.568	-41.237	3.222	-23.28	-22.01	0.0042	0.0182	1
1998-01-01T18:00	62.526	-41.333	3.125	-22.12	-21.29	0.0030	0.0127	1
1998-01-02T00:00	62.486	-41.423	2.798	-19.72	-20.85	0.0015	0.0061	1
1998-01-02T06:00	62.445	-41.498	2.880	-9.32	-25.77	0.0001	0.0003	1
1998-01-02T12:00	62.386	-41.500	2.530	9.39	-26.75	0.0000	0.0001	1
1998-01-02T18:00	62.342	-41.420	2.587	16.91	-23.23	0.0000	0.0000	1
1998-01-03T00:00	62.296	-41.360	2.900	9.52	-29.11	0.0004	0.0017	1
1998-01-03T06:00	62.229	-41.341	3.221	3.56	-35.88	0.0020	0.0082	1
1998-01-03T12:00	62.156	-41.330	3.207	2.07	-38.08	0.0035	0.0149	1
1998-01-03T18:00	62.081	-41.324	3.063	1.16	-39.39	0.0047	0.0203	1
1998-01-04T00:00	62.004	-41.321	3.261	0.41	-40.27	0.0055	0.0235	1
1998-01-04T06:00	61.925	-41.320	3.594	-0.35	-40.90	0.0056	0.0243	1
1998-01-04T12:00	61.845	-41.323	3.584	-1.22	-41.35	0.0052	0.0224	1
1998-01-04T18:00	61.765	-41.330	3.439	-2.34	-41.71	0.0043	0.0182	1
1998-01-05T00:00	61.684	-41.342	3.630	-4.02	-42.19	0.0029	0.0122	0
1998-01-05T06:00	61.601	-41.363	3.940	-7.68	-43.91	0.0013	0.0053	0
1998-01-05T12:00	61.513	-41.405	3.947	-21.36	-54.23	0.0000	0.0000	0
1998-01-05T18:00	61.391	-41.536	4.015			0.0000	0.0000	0