WATER TEMPERATURE and Other Data from FIXED PLATFORM From South Atlantic Ocean and Others from 19781122 to 19810113 (NODC Accession 9000113)

• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: NOAA NCEI Environmental Data Archive 2016
• Subjects: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; 9000113; BAROMETRIC PRESSURE; SALINITY; WATER TEMPERATURE; WIND SPEED; buoy - drifting buoy; current measurements - surface currents; physical; FIXED PLATFORM; US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; National Oceanographic Data Center; FIRST GLOBAL GARP (Global Atmospheric Research Program) EXPERIMENT (FGGE); South Atlantic Ocean; South Pacific Ocean; oceanography; GARP/FGGE > Global Atmospheric Research Program/First Garp Global Experiment (GARP/FGGE); EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED/WIND DIRECTION; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY; BUOYS; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN; Pacific
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This data set is a processed version of data obtained during the First GARP (Global Atmospheric Research Program) Global Experiment (FGGE). The data were obtained by 359 individual drifting buoys from November 1978 to January 1981 mostly in the southern hemisphere oceans. This data set was processed by Dr. Steven L. Patterson from NODC. The buoys were supplied by different countries. Included in the documentation is a description of the data set and a manuscript titled "Surface Circulation and Kinetic Energy Distribution in the South by S.L. Patterson". This paper was published in the Journal of Physical Oceanography 15 (7).