d699f52f698f5cc8bb5a72bc4ac1c932 English dataset Polly Hadžiabdic British Oceanographic Data Centre Head of the BODC Requests Team Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ pointOfContact 2018-02-06T15:16:38 MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard Version 2.3.8 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326 OGP Institute of Oceanographic Sciences (IOS) Indian and Southern Ocean Drifting Buoy Data (1979-1981) British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048036 2017-10-03 publication 2010-09-30 creation 2010-09-30 revision EDMED177 http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ The data set comprises temperature, pressure, position and occasionally wave data from nine drifting buoys that were deployed across the Southern Hemisphere. Data were collected from 1979 to 1981. Each buoy carried surface pressure and sea temperature sensors, and seven of the buoys were equipped with drogues in order to aid the study of large scale, near surface ocean currents, and to complement concurrent oceanographic observations made in the area by the research ship RRS Discovery. Two of the buoys were designed with good wave following characteristics and contained accelerometers and simple processors so as to yield good wave information. The buoys were equipped with UHF telemetry transmitters to relay data to the ARGOS system on board the polar orbiting meteorological satellites Tiros-9 and NOAA-6. The buoys were were deployed by the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Wormley Laboratory UK as part of the First Garp Global Experiment (FGGE) Southern Hemisphere Drifting Buoy Network. Unknown Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Wormley Laboratory Unknown Brook Road Wormley Godalming Surrey GU8 5UB United Kingdom inapplicable originator British Oceanographic Data Centre Director Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ custodian asNeeded Lagrangian currents and transport rates in the water column Wave direction Temperature of the water column Horizontal spatial co-ordinates Wave height and period statistics SeaDataNet PDV 2018-01-12 revision unknown Vertical Coverages 2013-02-06 revision Marine Environmental Data and Information Network Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres MEDIN metadata record availability 2012-01-11 revision Geographical grid systems Oceanographic geographical features INSPIRE themes 2009-07-31 revision Usage restrictions are specified in the terms of the licence otherRestrictions Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence English oceans location -180.00 179.00 -80.00 0.00 SeaVoX water bodies 2015-02-19 revision Laptev Sea 1979 1981 Publication year: 1982-05-01 Publication title: Drifting buoy observations using satellite telemetry. The Radio and Electronic Engineer, Vol 52 (5), pp239-245. Publication authors: Collar, P.G., Clayson, C.H., Gwilliam, T.J.P. and Hunter, C.A. Publication editors: IOS British Oceanographic Data Centre Director Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ distributor dataset Instrument(s) used to collect data: wave recorders; sea level recorders; satellite tracking system; salinity sensor.