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Title: Current, meteorological, and other data from drifting buoys from a world-wide distribution from 01 January 2001 to 31 December 2001 (NODC Accession 0000724)
Abstract: Current, meteorological, and other data were collected from drifting buoys from a world-wide distribution from 01 January 2001 to 31 December 2001. Data were submitted by Marine Environmental Data Service (MEDS) and are in the MEDS format.
Current parameters include water temperature and potential water temperature. Meteorological parameters include relative humidity and dry bulb temperature.
Date received: 20020513
Start date: 20010101
End date: 20011231
Seanames: World-Wide Distribution
West boundary: 21.87
East boundary: 21.85
North boundary: 90
South boundary: -74.588
Observation types: time series
Instrument types: buoy - drifting buoy
Datatypes: CURRENT METER - DIRECTION, CURRENT METER - 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: 2987430
Supplementary information:
Availability date: 20020513
Metadata version: 2
Keydate: 2002-05-14 15:55:42+00
Editdate: 2007-02-20 18:47:29+00