Seaglider Oceanographic Measurements from Iceland Faroe Ridge Deployment

NOAA NCEI Accession 0117310 contains physical oceanographic data collected by Seaglider SG101, an autonomous underwater vehicle. The glider measured temperature, salinity, and depth-averaged currents along a sawtooth trajectory during a mission from November 12, -06 to February 18, -07. The dataset was collected by the University of Washington's School of Oceanography and Applied Physics Laboratory.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temperature and salinity profiles to study water mass structure in the North Atlantic.
• Estimating depth-averaged currents from glider trajectory data for ocean circulation studies.
• Validating ocean models using in-situ measurements of physical properties from the Iceland Faroe Ridge region.
• Studying the performance and data collection capabilities of Seaglider autonomous underwater vehicles in long-duration missions.

Strengths

• Data collected by a specialized Seaglider AUV designed for missions lasting many months.
• Includes core physical oceanography variables: temperature, salinity, and depth-averaged currents.

Limitations

• Specific row count, column details, and file formats are unknown.
• Data is from a single mission in 2006-2007, limiting temporal analysis to that period.
• Geographic coverage is confined to the Iceland Faroe Ridge area in the North Atlantic.

Provenance

Source

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), University of Washington School of Oceanography and Applied Physics Laboratory.

Collection Method

Data collected by a buoyancy-driven Seaglider autonomous underwater vehicle gliding on a sawtooth trajectory.

Time Range

2006-11 12 to 2007-02-18

Freshness

Last updated 2007-02-18; historical dataset with no ongoing updates.

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean, Iceland Faroe Ridge.