Seaglider Oceanographic Measurements from NW Atlantic Deployment

NW Atlantic oceanographic data collected by Seaglider SG035 near Bermuda and Hydrostation S from March to June 2014. The dataset contains measurements of temperature, salinity, and depth-averaged currents along the vehicle's sawtooth trajectory. It was collected by the University of Washington and archived by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information.

Use Cases

• Analyze temperature and salinity profiles to study water mass structure and mixing in the NW Atlantic.
• Model depth-averaged current measurements to understand regional ocean circulation patterns.
• Validate autonomous underwater vehicle sensor performance using the reported physical quantity measurements.
• Study the temporal evolution of ocean conditions from March to June 2014 using the time-series data.

Strengths

• Data collected over a 3-month mission duration from March to June 2014.
• Measurements include multiple key oceanographic variables: temperature, salinity, and currents.

Limitations

• Specific row count, column details, and file formats are unknown.
• Data is from a single vehicle deployment, limiting spatial representativeness.
• Temporal coverage is limited to a single season in 2014.

Provenance

Source

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI Accession 0162366).

Collection Method

Collected by a buoyancy-driven Seaglider autonomous underwater vehicle on a programmed sawtooth trajectory.

Time Range

2014-03 20 to 2014-06-17.

Freshness

Last updated 2014-06-17; static historical dataset.

Geography

NW Atlantic Ocean, near Bermuda and Hydrostation S (BATS).