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OAS accession Detail for 0000435, meta_version: 4. Current meta_version is: 12
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Title: Drifting buoy data observed during 2000 and assembled by the Responsible National Oceanographic Data Center (RNODC) for Drifting Buoy Data (NODC Accession 0000435)
Abstract:
Date received: 20010402
Start date: 20000101
End date: 20001231
Seanames: World-Wide Distribution
West boundary: -180
East boundary: 180
North boundary: 90
South boundary: -90
Observation types: meteorological, physical, surface measurements, time series
Instrument types: buoy - drifting buoy
Datatypes: AIR TEMPERATURE - DRY BULB, BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, DEPTH - OBSERVATION, RELATIVE HUMIDITY, SALINITY, SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE, SWELL HEIGHT, SWELL PERIOD, WATER TEMPERATURE, WIND DIRECTION, WIND SPEED
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: As the Responsible National Oceanographic Data Center (RNODC) for Drifting Buoy Data, this is the MEDS annual submission of such data to the U.S. NODC.

Availability date:
Metadata version: 4
Keydate: 2001-04-16 04:00:00+00
Editdate: 2008-02-28 19:07:20+00