Got a subset of the drifter data from AOML and made sure to only get those that are drogued, for 2002-2019 (matching tag data), and global (for now).

Your submitted request was: request_gld.20200306_013522 Drogue=1 fromDate=2002/02/15 toDate=2019/06/30 northernEdge=90 southernEdge=-78 westernEdge=-180 easternEdge=180

setwd('~/ebs/Data/drifters/')
download.file('ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/od/pub/envids/metadata_gld.20200306_013522.zip', 'metadata_gld.20200306_013522.zip')
download.file('ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/od/pub/envids/interpolated_gld.20200306_013522.zip', 'interpolated_gld.20200306_013522.zip')

unzip('metadata_gld.20200306_013522.zip')
unzip('interpolated_gld.20200306_013522.zip')

dr <- data.table::fread('interpolated_gld.20200306_013522')
meta <- data.table::fread('metadata_gld.20200306_013522', fill=T)