Seaglider Physical Oceanography Measurements From North Atlantic Mission

Seaglider SG014 collected temperature, salinity, and depth-averaged current data along a sawtooth trajectory in the North Atlantic Ocean. The autonomous underwater vehicle was deployed by the University of Washington for a 64-day mission from August to October 2008. Data is archived by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information.

Use Cases

• Analyze vertical temperature and salinity profiles to study ocean stratification and mixing processes.
• Calculate depth-averaged currents from glider trajectory data to map subsurface flow patterns.
• Model the glider's sawtooth dive trajectory to optimize autonomous underwater vehicle mission planning.
• Correlate physical measurements with temporal and geospatial coordinates for time-series analysis of ocean conditions.

Strengths

• Data collected over a continuous 64-day mission, providing a sustained temporal record.
• Measurements include key physical oceanography variables: temperature, salinity, and depth-averaged currents.
• Deployed in the North Atlantic Ocean, a region critical for global climate studies.

Limitations

• Specific row count, column details, and data resolution are unknown from the metadata.
• Data is from a single glider mission, limiting spatial coverage to its specific track.
• Dataset is from 2008 and may not reflect current oceanographic conditions.

Provenance

Source

University of Washington's School of Oceanography and Applied Physics Laboratory, archived by NOAA NCEI.

Collection Method

Collected by a buoyancy-driven Seaglider autonomous underwater vehicle via wireless telemetry.

Time Range

2008-08 29 to 2008-10-31

Freshness

Last updated 2008-10-31; static historical dataset.

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean, specific mission area near the Faroe Islands.