37fe58e387cc57f6ac8dfec566780e92 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 National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) Neutrally Buoyant Float Data Reports (1955-1964, 1969) British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048045 2017-10-03 publication 2010-08-26 creation 2010-09-11 revision EDMED182 http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ The data set comprises a series of ten reports containing tables of current data and diagrams of trajectories derived from neutrally buoyant floats deployed in seas across the globe. The floats were numbered between 1-180 and 209-227, with floats 1-180 being deployed between 1955 and 1964 and floats 209-227 being deployed between February and March 1969. Detailed deployment information is listed below, with deployment location, float numbers, deployment dates and ship name (if known). NE Atlantic: floats 1-5 (Jun 1955, Oct-Nov 1955); float 11 (Aug 1956); floats 12-20 (Mar 1957); floats 25-33 (May-Jul 1958); floats 34-39 (Nov 1958). Norwegian Sea: floats 6-10 (Apr-May 1956). NW Pacific: floats 21-24 (Jul-Aug 1957). Deep water off Bermuda: floats 40-53, 55, 58 (Jun-Oct 1959, RV Aries); floats 54, 56, 57 (Oct 1959, RV Crawford); floats 59-60,64-65,68, 69,71,73-74 (Jun-Dec 1959, RV Aries); floats 61-63,66, 67,70,72 (Nov 1959, RV Crawford); floats 75-77 (Dec 1959, RV Atlantis); floats 78-98 (Feb-Jun 1960, RV Aries); floats 99-119 (Jun-Aug 1960, RV Aries). Faroe-Shetland Channel: floats 120-127 (Jul 1961, RRS Discovery). Faroe Bank Channel: float 135 (1963, Ernest Holt). Labrador Sea: floats 128-132 (1962, Erika Dan). Arabian Sea: floats 133, 134, 136-139 (Jul-Aug 1963, RRS Discovery). Indian Ocean: floats 140-160 (Mar-Apr 1964, RRS Discovery); floats 161-180 (Apr-Aug 1964, RRS Discovery). NW Mediterranean: floats 209-227 (Feb-Mar 1969, RRS Discovery). The reports were produced by the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), which later became the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory. Unknown National Institute of Oceanography 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 Date and time Horizontal spatial co-ordinates Vertical spatial coordinates 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 Coordinate reference systems Oceanographic geographical features Elevation 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 -180.00 180.00 -80.00 80.00 1955 1969 Publication year: 1969-11-01 Publication title: A series of National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) Reports (Internal Reports D1 to D10) published between November 1969 and February 1972. Publication authors: National Institute of Oceanography 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: satellite tracking system.