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Title: Satellite-tracked surface-layer drifters released at the 106-mile site from 1989-10-25 to 1991-09-18 (NCEI Accession 9300075)
Abstract: Sewage disposal and temperature profile data were collected using bottle in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean from 25 October 1989 to 19 September 1991. Data were collected and submitted by John Hennessey of Battelle Marine Research laboratory in New England with support from the Ocean Dumping and SKYLAB projects.

Data has been processed by NODC to the NODC standard Ocean Drifter (F156) format.

The F156 data type contains time series ocean circulation data determined by tracking the movement of drifting buoys, drogues or other instrumented devices. Movement is reported as point-to-point geographic locations determined by shore-based, surface ship, aircraft or satellite observations. Data from both ocean currents and sea ice movement can be reported in this format over time periods ranging from minutes to months. Directions and speeds between individual observations may be computed from these data and presented in graphic or summary listing form to provide information on circulation patterns and mass transport in offshore and nearshore regions.%BR%%BR%Platform name (for platform acquiring data or deploying device), drogue characteristics, start and end positions and times, and observation frequency (if constant time interval) are reported for each series of observations. The data record comprises position, date and time for each observation. Other surface meteorological or oceanographic parameters (e.g., water temperature and salinity, air temperature and pressure, wind, waves) and subsurface data (depth, pressure, temperature) may also be reported. Text records may be used to report general comments or to describe individual drogue observations.
Date received: 19930421
Start date: 19891025
End date: 19910918
Seanames: New York Bight, North Atlantic Ocean
West boundary: -74.94
East boundary: -36.1
North boundary: 47.44
South boundary: 34.02
Observation types: current measurements - surface currents, physical, surface measurements, time series
Instrument types: buoy - drifting buoy
Datatypes: AIR TEMPERATURE, BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, CURRENT DIRECTION, CURRENT SPEED, DEPTH - SENSOR, HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE, ICE - MOVEMENT - DIRECTION, ICE - MOVEMENT - SPEED, SALINITY - SURFACE WATER, SEA STATE, SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE, water depth, WAVE HEIGHT, WAVE PERIOD, WIND DIRECTION, WIND SPEED
Submitter: Hennessy, John
Submitting institution: Battelle Ocean Sciences Laboratory - New England
Collecting institutions: Battelle Ocean Sciences Laboratory - New England
Contributing projects: OCEAN DUMPING, SKYLAB
Platforms: drifting buoy (99DB)
Number of observations:
Supplementary information: The NOAA Central Library catalogs publications associated
with this accession.
Call number: GC491 .S2 1992

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, NCEI reviews metadata for all accessions on an ongoing basis.

Points of contact for this data set include:
Contact info:
Agency: BATTELLE MARINE RESEARCH LABORATORY - NEW ENGLAND
PI: Hennessy, John
Address:
address: 397 WASHINGTON STREET
city: DUXBURY
state: MA
postal: 02332
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: 19930421
Metadata version: 7
Keydate: 2002-11-19 19:40:22+00
Editdate: 2023-02-15 22:31:19+00