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Title: Current meter components and other data from FIXED PLATFORMS from 1978-05-01 to 1979-07-01 (NODC Accession 8500083)
Abstract: Current meter components data were collected from FIXED PLATFORMS from 01 May 1978 to 01 July 1979. Data were collected by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard F015 Current Meter Components format. Full format description is available from NODC at www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-Archive/f015.html.

The F015 format contains time series measurements of ocean currents. These data are obtained from current meter moorings and represent the Eulerian method of current measurement, i.e., the meters are deployed at a fixed point and measure flow past a sensor. Position, bottom depth, sensor depth and meter characteristics are reported for each station. The data record includes values of east-west (u) and north-south (v) current vector components at specified date and time. Current direction is defined as the direction toward which the water is flowing with positive directions east and north. Data values may be subject to averaging or filtering and are typically reported at 10 - 15 minute time intervals. Water temperature, pressure and conductivity or salinity may also be reported. A text record is available for optional comments.
Date received: 19850508
Start date: 19780501
End date: 19790701
Seanames: North Atlantic Ocean
West boundary: -69.630556
East boundary: -69.166667
North boundary: 31.169444
South boundary: 30.597222
Observation types: continuous, current measurements, physical, time series
Instrument types: current meter, mooring, thermistor
Datatypes: CONDUCTIVITY, CURRENT METER - EAST-WEST COMPONENT (U), CURRENT METER - NORTH-SOUTH COMPONENT (V), HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE, WATER TEMPERATURE
Submitter:
Submitting institution: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Collecting institutions: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Contributing projects:
Platforms: FIXED PLATFORM OF UNITED STATES (317F)
Number of observations:
Supplementary information: Note: Metadata for this accession were extracted from a legacy database
maintained by the U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). The
design of the database did not exactly reflect the FGDC Content
Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM).

Principal Investigator (PI) and organization contact information
accurately represents all available information from the legacy database
at the time that this description was created. However, proper
attribution of a PI to a specific institution or the role (submitting or
collecting) taken by an institution may not be correct due to inexact
mapping between fields in the legacy database and the CSDGM. Due to this
uncertainty, the contact information was initially recorded in the
Supplemental Information element of the CSDGM description.

To develop more accurate metadata, the NODC reviews metadata for all
accessions on an ongoing basis.


Points of contact for this data set include:
Contact info:
Agency: WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE
PI: N/A
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: WOODS HOLE
state: MA
postal: 02543
country: UNITED STATES

In this accession, NCEI has archived multiple versions of these data. The latest (and best) version of these data has the largest version number.
Availability date: 19850508
Metadata version: 9
Keydate: 2002-11-19 19:40:22+00
Editdate: 2020-04-06 19:15:10+00