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Title: Water temperature and meteorological data from drifting buoys from a world-wide distribution from 01 January 2000 to 31 December 2000 (NODC Accession No. - 0000435)
Abstract: Water temperature, meteorological, and other data were collected from a word-wide distribution of drifting buoys from 01 January 2000 to 31 December 2000. Data were submitted by Marine Environmenta Data Service (MEDS) and are in the MEDS ASCII format.
Date received: 20010402
Start date: 20000101
End date: 20001231
Seanames: World-Wide Distribution
West boundary: 123.738
East boundary: 123.722
North boundary: 89.594
South boundary: -90
Observation types: time series
Instrument types: buoy - drifting buoy
Datatypes: CURRENT DIRECTION, CURRENT SPEED, SALINITY, TEMPERATURE - WATER
Submitter: Menard, Roger
Submitting institution: Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Marine Environmental Data Section
Collecting institutions:
Contributing projects:
Platforms:
Number of observations: 2596449
Supplementary information:
Availability date:
Metadata version: 2
Keydate: 2001-04-16 04:00:00+00
Editdate: 2007-01-23 13:50:57+00