Dataset: WS1005 cruise track

Name: Cruise track (1-min fixes; from R2R) from R/V F.G. Walton Smith cruise WS1005 from Miami to the Bahamas in 2010
Published: 2013-07-09
Keywords: oceans

Cite This Dataset

DOI:10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.3993.1

Spatial Extent: N:25.83778167 E:-76.8221655 S:24.6997025 W:-80.19414733

Temporal Extent: 2010-03-18 - 2010-03-24

Project:

Were Protists the Beginning of the End for Stromatolites? (Protists_Stromatolites)

Chief Scientist:

Joan M. Bernhard (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Shannon Rauch (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version:

Version Date:

2013-07-09

Restricted:

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Cruise track (1-min fixes; from R2R) from R/V F.G. Walton Smith cruise WS1005 from Miami to the Bahamas in 2010

Abstract:

1-minute resolution navigation from the WS1005 cruise aboard the R/V F.G. Walton Smith from 18 March to 24 March 2010.

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Archival Copy

Version Date	Archive	Persistent Identifier	Date Assigned
2013-07-09	Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library (MBLWHOI DLA)	10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.3993.1	2019-11-12

Description

1-minute resolution navigation from the WS1005 cruise aboard the R/V F.G. Walton Smith from 18 March to 24 March 2010.

Methods & Sampling

Original navigation and other data are available from the NSF R2R data catalog: http://www.rvdata.us/catalog/WS1005

Data Files

File
WS1005_cruise_track.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 791.70 KB) MD5:e3a4e2f01bef74d31295080b113e7ebb Primary data file for dataset ID 3993

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-0926421

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
WS1005		2010-03-18	R/V F.G. Walton Smith	Joan M. Bernhard (Chief Scientist)	data info

Instruments

None available yet

Parameters

Date and time formats are described in python strftime() syntax.

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
date_utc	Year, month, and day (UTC) in YYYYmmdd format.	unitless	date_utc
time_utc	Time (UTC) in hours, minutes, and decimal minutes; 24-hour clock.	HHMM.mmmmm	time_utc
lat	Latitude (-90 to 90 decimal degrees).	decimal degrees	lat
lon	Longitude (-180 to 180 decimal degrees).	decimal degrees	lon
sog	Instantaneous speed-over-ground (in meters per second); computed from single-differences of successive positions (from the current position to the next position).	m/s	sog
cog	Instantaneous course-over-ground measured in degrees clockwise from north.	degrees clockwise from North	cog
ISO_DateTime_UTC	Date/Time (UTC) formatted to ISO8601 standard. T indicates start of time string; Z indicates UTC.	YYYY-mm-ddTHH:MM:SS.ssZ	ISO_DateTime_UTC