James P. Manning
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Collection of drifter tracks from various projects in the
Northeast US with most being from the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank.
Projects include ECOHAB, MERHAB, USGS Mass Bay, GLOBEC, SCOPEX, and
eMOLT. Time span ranges from 1988 to present. Drogue depths vary from 1m
to 40m.
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19880402
20050617
Unknown
As needed
-75.0
-63.0
46.0
35.0
GCMD ENTRY ID
Drifters_US_NE_Continental_Shelf
GCMD SCIENCE PARAMETERS
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION >
ADVECTION
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION > OCEAN
CURRENTS
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION >
UPWELLING/DOWNWELLING
GCMD PLATFORM
BUOYS
GCMD INSTRUMENT
GPS RECEIVERS
ARGOS > ARGOS DATA COLLECTION AND POSITION LOCATION
SYSTEM
DRIFTING BUOYS
PROJECT
COHH > CENTERS FOR OCEANS AND HUMAN HEALTH
ECOHAB > ECOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY OF HARMFUL ALGAL
BLOOM
EMOLT > ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORS ON LOBSTER TRAPS
MERHAB > MONITORING AND EVENT RESPONSE FOR HARMFUL ALGAL
BLOOMS
SCOPEX > THE SOUTH CHANNEL OCEAN PRODUCTIVITY
EXPERIMENT
U.S.GLOBEC-GB > U.S. GLOBAL OCEAN ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS,
GEORGES BANK
GLOBEC > GLOBAL OCEAN ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS, IGBP
IGBP > INTERNATIONAL GEOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE
PROGRAMME
AUXILIARY KEYWORDS
Coastal Current
Lagrangian
Drifters
ISO TOPIC CATEGORY
OCEANS
DATA SET LANGUAGE
English
GCMD
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
MAINE
NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MAINE
NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GEORGES BANK
GULF OF MAINE
GCMD
1 Hr
Please notify the individual responsible for collecting the
specific dataset
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JAMES P. MANNING
TECHNICAL CONTACT
DIF AUTHOR
Mailing and Physical Address
NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC)
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
166 Water Street
Woods Hole
MA
02543
USA
508-495-2211
508-495-2258
james.manning@noaa.gov
jmanning@whsun1.wh.whoi.edu
Quality is poor in that a) drogue depths and loss not well
documented, b) variety of configurations were used, and c) data derived
from multiple projects with different agendas.
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.001 degrees
.001 degrees
Decimal degrees
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5m
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Implicit coordinate
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5m
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Implicit coordinate
DOC/NOAA/NMFS/NEFSC > Northeast Fisheries Science Center,
National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of
Commerce
JAMES P. MANNING
DATA CENTER CONTACT
Mailing and Physical Address
NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC)
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
166 Water Street
Woods Hole
MA
02543
USA
508-495-2211
508-495-2258
james.manning@noaa.gov
jmanning@whsun1.wh.whoi.edu
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http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/
DATA CENTER URL
https://fish.nefsc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/circmods/mapserv?map=../../html/circmods/first_wms.map&REQUEST=GetMap
NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center View data online
through a WMS server.
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20050616
20051005
20051201
JAMES P. MANNING
TECHNICAL CONTACT
DIF AUTHOR
Mailing and Physical Address
NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC)
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
166 Water Street
Woods Hole
MA
02543
USA
508-495-2211
508-495-2258
james.manning@noaa.gov
jmanning@whsun1.wh.whoi.edu
FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
FGDC-STD-001-1998
local time