NOMR12 DATABASE
Technical document
1. Organization
of the Database
Scientific and
technical information on the drifters are provided in the Scientific document page.
Plots of the
drifter data (time series and tracks) can be accessed in
three ways:
1)
With a search tool (Search page) in which the
files corresponding to a given drifter ID number are listed and can be
selected.
2)
Through a image navigator (Image navigator
page) which allows to
view the plots in sequenctial order
3)
From a master directory
table (Master table page) by
clicking on the file name in the first column.
Data
files are located in
the
Data access page. The drifter data are provided both
at the edited and kriged levels.
2. Data formats
The file names
are composed of the Argos ID number of the drifter with a prefix
(a,b,c,...) corresponding to different separate tracks of the same
drifter, and followed by an extension
indicating the data type.
The edited
data are available in ASCII files. For all the drifters , the files
(a####.ed) contain:
Column #1 : Matlab time (serial days where 1 corresponds
to 01-Jan-0000)
Column #2 : Latitude (deg N)
Column #3: Longitude (deg E)
Column #4: Quality index (3,2,1: ARGOS; 5,4: GPS)
Column #5: Drifter voltage (Volt)
Column #6: Sea surface temperature (deg C)
The low-pass
filtered and interpolated (kriged) drifter data are available in MATLAB
binary files (a####_kri.mat). The following parameters are provided:
time = MATLAB time (serial days where 1 corresponds
to 01-Jan-0000)
lon = Longitude (deg E)
lat = Latitude (deg N)
sst = Temperature (deg C)
u = East-West component of velocity (cm/s)
v = North-south component of velocity (cm/s)
.