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WATER TEMPERATURE and Other Data from FIXED PLATFORM From South Atlantic Ocean and Others from 1978-11-22 to 1981-01-13 (NCEI Accession 9000113)

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: October 04, 2025 | Last Modified: 2002-11-19T00:00:00.000+00:00
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).

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9000113 BAROMETRIC PRESSURE SALINITY WATER TEMPERATURE WIND SPEED buoy - drifting buoy current measurements - surface currents physical FIXED PLATFORM OF UNITED STATES US National Oceanographic Data Center US National Oceanographic Data Center FIRST GLOBAL GARP (Global Atmospheric Research Program) EXPERIMENT (FGGE) South Atlantic Ocean South Pacific Ocean oceanography DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce 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 EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY DRIFTING BUOYS > DRIFTING BUOYS FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS > FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN

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describedByType application/octet-steam
identifier gov.noaa.nodc:9000113
issued 2002-11-19T00:00:00.000+00:00
landingPage https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
language []
rights otherRestrictions
spatial 180.0,-70.0,-180.0,0.0
temporal 1978-11-22T00:00:00+00:00/1981-01-13T00:00:00+00:00

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