Lagrangian Drifter, Near-Shore Ocean Circulation Research Data

Data access:

If you are looking for plots of our experiments, please go to the deployments page and choose a deployment area.
Contuinue here to download drifter data from any deployment (login/password required!, contact kirk for access).

Data Columns are:

   Column 01  Drifter ID number
   Column 02  Year (GMT)
   Column 03  Month (GMT)
   Column 04  Day (GMT)
   Column 05  Hour (GMT)
   Column 06  Minute (GMT)
   Column 07  Second (GMT)
   Column 08  Latitude
   Column 09  Longitude
   Column 10* Total drifter u velocity (cm/s, + = E)
   Column 11* Total drifter v velocity (cm/s, + = N)
   Column 12* Total drifter alongshore velocity (cm/s, + = Equatorward)
   Column 13* Total drifter offshore velocity (cm/s, + = Onshore)
   Column 14* Depth of water below drifter (m)
   Column 15* Drifter change depth over time (cm/s)
   Column 16  Matlab Serial time
   Column 17  GPS Satellites available
   Column 18  GPS Satellites used
   Column 19  Mobitex Receiving status (encoded)
   Column 20  Time to GPS satellite fix (seconds)
   Column 21  Mobitex RSSI (quality of connection)

   * denotes a derived product