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Found 54 datasets matching "drifters".

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Hourly location, current velocity, and temperature collected from Global Drifter Program drifters world-wide
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2025-06-27T00:00:00.000+00:00
This dataset includes sea surface temperature and current data collected by satellite-tracked surface drifting buoys ("drifters") for the NOAA Global Drifter Program. The Drifter Data Assembly...
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Deployments of autonomous, GPS ocean ocean-surface drifters, Makua, Kauai, USA, August 2016
- Organization: Department of the Interior
- Updated: 2021-10-13T00:00:00Z
Satellite-tracked, DGPS-equipped Lagrangian surface-current drifter deployments were conducted over 6 days between 30 July and 4 August 2016 at various locations and stages of the tide over the...
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S-MODE L2 Position Data from Surface Drifters Version 1
- Organization: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Updated: 2026-02-10
This dataset contains in-situ position data from surface drifters from the Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment (S-MODE) conducted approximately 300 km offshore of San Francisco during a pilot...
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Surface currents and temperature data from satellite-tracked drifters in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas from 2011-08-07 to 2014-03-06 (NCEI Accession 0126984)
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2015-04-01T00:00:00.000+00:00
Drifters were deployed from vessels in the Chukchi Sea during the ice-free seasons of 2011-2013. Drifter positions were determined via GPS, and positions were relayed via Iridium communications to...
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Hourly location, current velocity, and temperature collected from Global Drifter Program drifters world-wide
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2025-06-27T00:00:00.000+00:00
This dataset includes sea surface temperature and current data collected by satellite-tracked surface drifting buoys ("drifters") for the NOAA Global Drifter Program. The Drifter Data Assembly...
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Current measurements from five ARGOS-tracked drifters in the Mid-Atlantic Bight, in support of the DECADE project, in April 2003 (NCEI Accession 0002346)
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2020-10-22T00:00:00.000+00:00
This dataset includes current data collected by drifters deployed from 2003-04-14 to 2003-04-16 in the Middle Atlantic Bight continental shelf / offshore Delaware Bay. Instruments used include 3...
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GPS Position from 5-cm, 10-cm, and CODE-style Drifters in the Gulf of Mexico from 2017-01-24 to 2017-05-22 (NCEI Accession 0175631)
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2018-08-28T00:00:00.000+00:00
This dataset contains GPS positions/times from surface drifters of three different types: a thin 5-cm tall cylindrical hull, a 10-cm tall cylindrical hull, and a typical shallow drogued (CODE- or...
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Current measurements from SVP and APEX drifters around the Hawaiian Islands deployed by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystems Division (CRED), 2001-2006 (NCEI Accession 0049436)
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2008-12-15T00:00:00.000+00:00
This data collection includes data from multiple SVP and APEX drifters deployed in the region around the Hawaiian Islands to assess ocean currents and sea surface temperature. SVP and APEX drifter...
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Ice Tracking drifters deployed on nearshore ice near Barrow, AK, Chukchi Sea, 2015-03-26 to 2017-09-27 (NCEI Accession 0173716)
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2018-08-06T00:00:00.000+00:00
Twenty-five (25) prototype satellite-tracked ice trackers manufactured by PacificGyre Inc. were deployed on the sea ice along the Alaskan Arctic coast. Twenty were deployed in the spring of 2015...
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POSITION - GEOGRAPHIC collected from CARTHE surface drifter in South Atlantic Ocean from 20230306 to 20230727 (NCEI Accession 0301712)
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2025-02-18T00:00:00.000+00:00
We deployed 200 CARTHE surface drifters drogued at 0.60 m depth. The sampling rate was set to every 10 minutes, giving theoretical battery life expectancy of more than 3 months. The GPS signal was...
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Lagrangian drifter data from the mouth of the Columbia River, Oregon and Washington, 2013
- Organization: Department of the Interior
- Updated: 2020-10-19T00:00:00Z
Lagrangian surface currents were measured using drifters equipped with global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers. A total of 8 drifter deployments were performed between May 25 and June...
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Lagrangian ocean surface drifter deployments off the National Park of American Samoa, Tutuila, American Samoa, 2015
- Organization: Department of the Interior
- Updated: 2020-10-19T00:00:00Z
Satellite-tracked, DGPS-equipped Lagrangian surface-current drifter deployments were conducted over 12 weeks between 14 April and 7 July 2015 at various locations within and offshore of the...
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WATER TEMPERATURE and Other Data from 1992-08-01 to 1993-09-30 (NCEI Accession 9600022)
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2013-03-19T00:00:00.000+00:00
The drifting buoy data from 28 drifting buoys in this accession was collected as part of Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (COARE) over a one year period between August 1, 1992 and...
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DWH NRDA Drifter Sightings
- Organization: Department of the Interior
- Updated: 2011-10-02T00:00:00Z
Data collection as part of the Deepwater Horizion Carcass Drift Study (Bird Study #1D) occurred during July and August, 2011. Data were collected by R.G. Ford Consulting Company (RGFCC) and...
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Coral Ecosystem Connectivity from Pulley Ridge to the Florida Keys: Surface Drifting Buoy Position Data from 2012-08-08 to 2016-05-12 (NCEI Accession 0178107)
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2018-12-04T00:00:00.000+00:00
This dataset contains satellite-tracked drifting buoy data collected around the southwest Florida Shelf. CODE/DAVIS (Coastal Dynamics Experiment drifters described by Davis, 1985) and mini SVP...
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Water Temperature, Conductivity, and others collected from RV Walton Smith in Gulf of Mexico from 2012-07-21 to 2012-08-01 (NCEI Accession 0156586)
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2016-10-04T00:00:00.000+00:00
This dataset contains 43 CTD casts made from the RV Walton Smith in the northern Gulf of Mexico near DeSoto Canyon in July-August 2012 as part of the Grand Lagrangian Deployment (GLAD) experiment....
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Physical oceanographic data in the Gulf of Alaska/Shelikof Strait, May 2000
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2016-03-08T00:00:00.000+00:00
To deploy 2 satellite tracked drifters in the Bering Sea. To conduct an ichthyoplankton survey from Unimak Pass to and around Kodiak Island To conduct nearshore sampling of ichthyoplankton using...
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SPURS-2 Drifter data for the E. Tropical Pacific field campaign
- Organization: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Updated: 2026-02-10
The SPURS (Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study) project is a NASA-funded oceanographic process study and associated field program that aim to elucidate key mechanisms responsible...
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Satellite-tracked surface-layer drifters released at the 106-mile site from 1989-10-25 to 1991-09-18 (NCEI Accession 9300075)
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2023-02-15T00:00:00.000+00:00
Sewage disposal and temperature profile data were collected using bottle in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean from 25 October 1989 to 19 September 1991. Data were collected and submitted by John...
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Temperature, salinity, pressure, conductivity and dynamic height profile data from R/V Wecoma off the coast of northern Oregon and southern Washington, 1990-91 (NCEI Accession 0114638)
- Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
- Updated: 2014-03-07T00:00:00.000+00:00
This set of hydrographic casts are from the Columbia River Plume Study (1990-1991). The project included CTD temperature, salinity pressure, conductivity observations and dynamic height. The...
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