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OAS accession Detail for 9300136
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| Title: | Drifting buoy data as part of the Physical Oceanography Field Program Offshore North Carolina in the NW Atlantic from 1992-05-01 to 1993-06-13 (NCEI Accession 9300136) |
| Abstract: | The drifting buoy data in this accession was collected over a one year period from buoys deployed by Science Applications, Inc., Raleigh NC in NW Atlantic (limit-40 W). The data was collected as part of Physical Oceanography Field Program Offshore North Carolina MMS contract # 14-35-0001-30599 from May 1, 1992 to June 13, 1993. This 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. 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. 25 files of water depth and other drifting buoy data submitted by Dr. Thomas Berger has been processed by NODC and is currently available in F156 Drifting Buoy file format. |
| Date received: | 19930730 |
| Start date: | 19920501 |
| End date: | 19930613 |
| Seanames: | North Atlantic Ocean |
| West boundary: | -76.65 |
| East boundary: | -54.66 |
| North boundary: | 43.34 |
| South boundary: | 34.08 |
| 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: | Berger, Dr. Thomas J. |
| Submitting institution: | Science Applications International Corporation - Raleigh, NC |
| Collecting institutions: | Science Applications International Corporation - Raleigh, NC |
| Contributing projects: | PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY FIELD PROGRAM OFFSHORE NORTH CAROLINA |
| Platforms: | drifting buoy (99DB) |
| Number of observations: | |
| Supplementary information: | The publication listed below is related to the data collection and is available from the NOAA Central Library: 1994 Physical Oceanographic Field Program, Offshore North Carolina, NODC ARGOS Tracked Drifter Data Submission. [Raleigh, N.C. : The Corporation?], 1993. 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: SCIENCE APPLICATIONS, INC. - RALEIGH NC PI: Berger, Dr. Thomas Address: address: 4900 WATERS EDGE DRIVE, SUITE 255 city: RALEIGH state: NC postal: 27606 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: | 19930730 |
| Metadata version: | 11 |
| Keydate: | 2002-11-19 19:40:22+00 |
| Editdate: | 2023-02-15 23:25:15+00 |