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Black Sea surface drifters data

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General  
Data holding centreState Oceanographic Institute
CountryRussian Federation  Russian Federation
ProjectCreation of Uniform System about World Ocean Condition (ESIMO)(ESIMO)
Time period1999-2005
OngoingNo
Geographical area

The Black Sea

Observations 
Parameters

Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents); Raw temperature and/or salinity instrument output

Description 
Summary

The whole data set contains data from 68 surface buoys drifted in the Black Sea from 1999/09/28 till 2005/10/19. Data from 59 buoys were quality controlled and interpolated with time step 6 hours. Data from 9 buoys were not still edited and interpolated.

OriginatorsState Oceanographic Institute
Availability 
OrganisationState Oceanographic Institute
AvailabilityNo access
ContactKorshenko Alexander (Head of Marine Pollution Monitoring Lab.)
Address

State Oceanographic Institute
Kropotkinsky Lane 6
Moscow

119034
Russian Federation

Telephone7 (495) 246 55 87
Facsimile+7 (499) 246-72-88
Emailkorshenko@mail.ru
Administration 
Collating centreAll-Russia Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information, World Data Centre, National Oceanographic Data Centre (NODC)
Local identifier35006002
Global identifier2478
Last revised2009-04-09