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Title: WATER TEMPERATURE and Other Data from 1992-08-01 to 1993-09-30 (NCEI Accession 9600022)
Abstract: The drifting buoy data from 28 drifting buoys in this accession was collected as part of Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (COARE) over a one year period between August 1, 1992 and September 30, 1993. Six French BODEGA drifters (SERPE-IESM, GUIDEL, 56, FRANCE TRISTAR) were deployed in August 1992 along the 165E meridian and in September 1992 along 156E. Seventeen additional BODEGA surface drifters were deployed in December 1992 and January/February 1993 from R/V Le Noroit along 156E, 4S-5N during the COARE Intensive Observation Period. Deployments were coordinated with a set of surface drifters that were released by Peter Niiler from the University of California, San Diego. Data was submitted by Yves Du Penhoat, Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre Mer (ORSTOM), Noumea, New Caledonia via FTP. The data is accompanied by good description regarding format etc.
Date received: 19960307
Start date: 19920801
End date: 19930930
Seanames:
West boundary: 150.398
East boundary: 173.883
North boundary: 5.993
South boundary: -6.631
Observation types: current measurements - surface currents, physical
Instrument types: buoy - drifting buoy
Datatypes: BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, SALINITY, WATER TEMPERATURE, WIND SPEED
Submitter: Du Penhoat, Yves
Submitting institution: Centre ORSTOM - Nouméa
Collecting institutions: Centre ORSTOM - Nouméa
Contributing projects: COARE
Platforms:
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.

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Contact info:
Agency: OFFICE DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE ET TECHNIQUE OUTRE MER - NOUMEA; NEW CALEDONIA
PI: Du Penhoat, Yves
Address:
address: B. P. A. 5
city: NOUMEA CEDEX
state: NOT AVAILABLE
postal: NOT AVAILABLE
country: NEW CALEDONIA
Availability date: 19960307
Metadata version: 6
Keydate: 2002-11-19 19:40:22+00
Editdate: 2020-04-08 18:14:43+00