Parameter: speed_f_w

Short Description: forward speed rel water
Short Name: speed_f_w
Official Name: speed_f_w
Units: various

Description

Speed through the water (STW).  The forward speed with respect to water. Units various, commonly reported in distance per time. e.g meters per second (m/s) or knots.

When used in JGOFS/GLOBEC projects the units are m/s for speed_f_w.

DatasetPI-Supplied DescriptionPI-Supplied Name
Alongtrack data collected continuously by the ship's underway acquisition system from R/V Knorr cruise KN207-01 in the southern tip of Nova Scotia to Bermuda in 2012 (SargassoSeaLipids project)Ship speed through the water in knots, from the Furuno Speedlog. Originally named 'SPD'. speedlog
Alongtrack data collected continuously by the ship's underway acquisition system from R/V Knorr cruise KN207-03 in the North Atlantic (transect from Ponta Delgada, Azores to Reykjavik, Iceland) in 2012 (NA-VICE project)Ship's speed through the water from the Furuno Speedlog. Originally named 'SPD'. speedlog
Underway Data Acquisition System (UDAS) data from R/V Point Sur cruise PS1312 along the Central California coast from June to July of 2013 (Diatom Group Si Prod project)Speed Through the Water STW
Underway determinations (includes Fe) from R/V Kaiyo-Maru cruise KY0103-02 from the Northwestern Sub-Arctic Pacific in 2001 (SEEDS I project)Ship's speed in knots speed
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