October 2002 data from Seaglider SG009, an autonomous underwater vehicle, deployed in the Gulf of Alaska's Blying Sound. The dataset contains measurements of temperature, salinity, and depth-averaged currents collected during a sawtooth gliding mission from October 23 to November 23, 2002. The glider was developed by the University of Washington and the data is archived by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information.
Use Cases
- Analyze vertical profiles of temperature and salinity to study water mass structure in the Gulf of Alaska.
- Calculate depth-averaged currents from glider navigation data to understand local ocean circulation patterns.
- Validate hydrodynamic model outputs for the Blying Sound region using in-situ time-series measurements.
- Study the performance and data yield of Seaglider SG009 during its one-month deployment mission.
Strengths
- Data collected over a continuous 31-day mission from 2002-10-23 to 2002-11-23.
- Includes core physical oceanography variables: temperature, salinity, and depth-averaged currents.
- High-resolution vertical profiles from a sawtooth glider trajectory through the water column.
Limitations
- Dataset is from a single vehicle deployment in 2002, limiting temporal and spatial generalizability.
- Specific row count, column details, and file formats are unknown.
- Data is over 20 years old, which may limit relevance for studying recent oceanographic changes.
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI Accession 0162282).
- Collection Method
- Collected by Seaglider SG009, a buoyancy-driven autonomous underwater vehicle, using onboard sensors during a pre-programmed gliding mission.
- Time Range
- 2002-10-23 to 2002-11-23
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Blying Sound, Gulf of Alaska.