ALACE subsurface drifter data in South Pacific, for March 1995 (NODC Accession 9500149)

The ALACE (Autonomous LAgrangian Circulation Explorer) is a subsurface drifter, periodically rising to the surface to relay data to ARGOS. Instrument location is then obtained from ARGOS. An ALACE profiler collects data on ascent and relays a compressed data set to ARGOS. The amount of time spent at...

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Format: Dataset
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Published: NOAA NCEI Environmental Data Archive 2016
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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
9500149
BAROMETRIC PRESSURE
DEPTH - SENSOR
HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE
WATER TEMPERATURE
bathythermograph - uBT
CTD
physical
Alaska State Department of Fish and Game - Kodiak
University of California - San Diego; Scripps Institution of Oceanography
North Atlantic Ocean
South Atlantic Ocean
South Pacific Ocean
oceanography
OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN
Pacific
Scripps
Kodiak
North Atlantic
Alaska
Online Access:https://search.dataone.org/view/{B3B5871D-B077-4AEC-9F14-8171DABEB4FD}
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Summary:The ALACE (Autonomous LAgrangian Circulation Explorer) is a subsurface drifter, periodically rising to the surface to relay data to ARGOS. Instrument location is then obtained from ARGOS. An ALACE profiler collects data on ascent and relays a compressed data set to ARGOS. The amount of time spent at its neutrally-buoyant depth, and then at the surface, is variable, dependent upon the deployment site and the main scientific objective of the ALACE. Profiling ALACEs generally complete a cycle every 8-10 days, spending 24 hours at the surface transmitting to ARGOS.

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