DISPRO drifter 72975 trackline

DOI

Two Argos drifters were released on 15 March 2007. These devices are described by Niiler et al. (1995) and validated as being reliable for tracking water-mass movements: they consist of a surface buoy with a GPS receiver and a transmission link towards the ARGOS system. A cable and a 5m holey sock are immersed at a depth 15 m. Their drift is representative of the surface currents in this layer. Theses two drifters were released at the same time at a distance of 100 m apart in the Blanchard race, and then tracked every 30 minutes over 13 days. They were separated by a distance of 54 km from each other at the time of their retrieval. The trajectories shown illustrate the variability of currents in the Cap de la Hague area.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.762198
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.762253
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2012.01.011
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.762198
Provenance
Creator Bailly du Bois, Pascal ORCID logo; Dumas, F; Solier, L; Voiseux, C
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2011
Rights Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 570 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-2.694W, 49.303S, -1.547E, 49.803N); La Hague Cape, English Channel
Temporal Coverage Begin 2007-03-15T14:04:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2007-03-28T18:00:00Z