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	WOCE- Surface Velocity Program Data This was produced by AOML and MEDS
Version 3.0: August 2002

This collection contains information about and data from WOCE surface drifters deployed during the period 1990 to 2000. In addition, data collected from 1979 to 1989 have also been included. These have all undergone the same processing as the data from the WOCE period. They have been included to help place the data collected during WOCE in a larger time context..

The Surface Velocity Programme, SVP, of WOCE has been designed with two data centres being part of the DAC. The NOAA/Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) of Miami operates the Global Drifter Center (GDC) and the Marine Environmental Data Service (MEDS) of the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans have been given the data management task for the drifting buoy data. AOML receives, assembles, processes and applies quality control to the data received from Service ARGOS and from international partners. MEDS acts as the archive and distributor of the data. In this latter respect, MEDS also holds the original data from which the KRIG data on this disk derive. As well, MEDS has other drifter data that may be of interest..

Overview: A brief discussion of the composition of the SVP and some general issues regarding the data.

Data Files: Data from drifting buoys of cooperating operators are quality controlled and optimally interpolated to uniform six-hour interval trajectories Particular attention is given to provide quantitative estimates for the uncertainty of interpolation..

Inventories and Products: Presentations that show the characteristics of the data contained in this collection.

Documents: Documents describing details of the interpolation scheme used to generate the data in this collection, SVP meeting reports, and information about the archives and the flow of data from buoy to archives. .

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This disk should be referenced as "WOCE Data Products Committee. 2002. WOCE Global Data: Surface Velocity Data, Version 3.0, WOCE International Project Office, WOCE Report No. 180/02, Southampton, UK.

If you are interested in other WOCE datasets you will find summaries and information in the Data Information Unit collection.

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dac/gdc.html

http://www.meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/meds/Prog_Int/WOCE/WOCE_SVP/SVP_e.html