Physical trajectory profile data from glider bass deployed by University of South Florida;

NCEI Accession 0208802 contains physical trajectory profile data from the USF Bass glider deployed by the University of South Florida's College of Marine Science. The dataset includes measurements of temperature, salinity, conductivity, and density collected in the North Atlantic Ocean from March 16 to March 24, 2018. Data were aggregated and preserved by the Integrated Ocean Observing System's National Glider Data Assembly Center and the National Centers for Environmental Information.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean water column structure based on temperature and salinity profiles.
• Analyzing glider trajectory and spatial patterns of conductivity in the North Atlantic.
• Studying short-term temporal changes in ocean density during the deployment period in March 2018.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 9-day deployment from 2018-03-16 to 2018-03-24.
• Includes multiple physical oceanographic properties: temperature, salinity, conductivity, and density.
• Data underwent compliance checks and aggregation by the IOOS National Glider Data Assembly Center.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2018-03-24 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

University of South Florida; College of Marine Science; Ocean Technology Group, via IOOS National Glider Data Assembly Center and NOAA NCEI.

Collection Method

Measurements collected by an autonomous underwater glider (USF Bass) and aggregated into netCDF files.

Time Range

2018-03-16 to 2018-03-24

Freshness

Last updated 2018-03-24 00:00:00; static dataset.

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean