SoPatchDrifterNav

Data Object drifter navigation

contact PIs:

name	title
Dr Xiujun Wang	Principal Investigator

Dataset description

SOFeX project South Patch Drifter Navigation

Acquisition description

no methodology documentation contributed with data

Processing description

 dates:           6 February 2002 to 13 February 2002  (20020206-20020213) 
 location:        N: -66.0829  S: -66.2076  W: -172.175  E: -171.213 

  
 Change history:
    070509: downloaded original data (MelvilleSoPatchDrifter.xls) from SOFeX project data web site.
            data prepared by Dave DuBois (OCB DMO, WHOI)
    080815: added to OCB database by Cyndy Chandler, OCB DMO, (cchandler@whoi.edu)
  
 OCB DMO Note: Two worksheets contained in original file: JD37.09_40 and JD40_44.3; plus embedded
    charts. The OCB DMO extracted charts and combined the two worksheets into one data set.
    Units of measurement were not reported for the distance measurements; guessing 
    the units might be meters.
 
 PI note: South Patch Drifter Navigation data plots were extracted from the Excel data file 
    and are available in a single PDF format file.

Field Names List

Parameter	Description	Units
yrDay	day of year	dd.xxxx
lon_ship	longitude of ship; negative denotes West	decimal degrees
lat_ship	latitude of ship; negative denotes South	decimal degrees
lon_drift	longitude of drifter; negative denotes West	decimal degrees
lat_drift	latitude of drifter; negative denotes South	decimal degrees
lon_dist	longitude distance	meters ??
lat_dist	latitude distance	meters ??

Platforms List

R/V Melville COOK19MV

This document is created from the content of the BCO-DMO metadata database. 2009-11-22 09:32:38

info app: /home/ocb/dbase v.090827 CLC
Data URL: http://ocb.whoi.edu/jg/serv/OCB/SOFeX/Melville/SoPatchDrifterNav.