Southern Ocean Glider Trajectory Profile Data from 2014

Southern Ocean data from a Rutgers University glider deployment captures physical oceanographic properties. The dataset contains measurements from the West Antarctic Peninsula region, collected from February 17 to 25, 2014. NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) archived the data submitted by the Integrated Ocean Observing System's National Glider Data Assembly Center.

Use Cases

• Analyze temperature and salinity profiles over depth to study water mass structure in the West Antarctic Peninsula.
• Model density variations from conductivity and temperature measurements to understand ocean stratification.
• Map the glider's spatiotemporal trajectory against physical property readings for Lagrangian analysis.
• Correlate observed oceanographic properties with regional warming trends in a fast-warming Antarctic area.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific, ecologically significant region (West Antarctic Peninsula).
• Measurements include key physical oceanographic variables (temperature, salinity, conductivity, density).
• Data was aggregated and checked for compliance to a netCDF convention by the IOOS NGDAC.

Limitations

• Dataset is limited to a short 9-day temporal window in February 2014.
• Sample size and spatial extent are constrained to a single glider deployment (ru01).
• The specific row count, resolution, and data completeness metrics are unknown.

Provenance

Source

Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (data collector); NOAA NCEI (archivist).

Collection Method

Collected via an underwater glider (ru01) and processed/aggregated by the IOOS National Glider Data Assembly Center.

Time Range

2014-02-17 to 2014-02 25

Freshness

Data is from 2014; no update frequency is indicated, representing a historical snapshot.

Geography

Southern Ocean, West Antarctic Peninsula region.