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CSIRO Drift Card and Drift Bottle information sheets

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Drift bottles and drift cards are two of the oldest methods used to trace ocean currents. Drift bottles were were released by CSIRO's division of Fisheries and Oceanography from various locations along Australia's eastern coast between 1938-40, and off Western Australia between 1954-57. Drift cards have been released from various locations around Australia, and off South Africa since about 1969. The PDF documents under the links section contain most of the information available via the Datacentre, No raw data is associated with this record.

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Title CSIRO Drift Card and Drift Bottle information sheets
Language eng
Licence notspecified
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/c718118d-eecb-4319-8aee-f0ddab78261c
Contact Point
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML)
data-requests-hf@csiro.au
Reference Period 01/01/1938 - 01/01/1985
Geospatial Coverage {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[20.0, -90.0], [180.0, -90.0], [180.0, 28.0], [20.0, 28.0], [20.0, -90.0]]]}
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