Content: Data from surface drifter ID=78699deployed in the Nordic Seas, POLEWARD project (NO971274042)
Project Owner: met.no
Partners: Met.no, UiO, UiB, NPI
Project Menager: Cecilie Mauritzen (c. mauritzen@met.no)
Variables: Drifter index, time (days from 01-01-1970)
position longitude (degr E), position latitude (degr N), SST (K)
Data publicly available under the Global Drifter Program,http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dac/gdp.html
Processing: quality control, kriging, resampling til dt=0.25 day, for details see http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dac/dacdata.html.
The data is corrected for the drogue loss. Missing data are flagged a value of 999.9990
Update status for the whole data set: data from 145/150 drifters are included
(Transmitted successfully)
The data included spans the period 24 June 2007 - 30 September 2010
(as on 22 March 2011 - this is the last status of the quality-controlled data comes with ca. 6 month delay)
For the update we need to wait for QC from AOML/NOAA
Contact: Inga Koszalka, UiO, inga.koszalka@geo.uio.no, j.h.lacasce@geo.uio.no