Salacia Glider Physical Oceanographic Profile Data from the North Atlantic

NCSU Salacia Glider deployment in the North Atlantic Ocean collected physical oceanographic measurements. Data were submitted by the Integrated Ocean Observing System's National Glider Data Assembly Center to NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information for long-term preservation. The deployment occurred from September 19 to October 3, 2016.

Use Cases

• Model vertical temperature and salinity profiles from glider depth and location data.
• Analyze conductivity and density variations along the glider's trajectory for water mass identification.
• Correlate physical property measurements with deployment time-series to study short-term oceanographic events.
• Validate regional ocean models using in-situ temperature and salinity data from the 2016 North Atlantic deployment.

Strengths

• Data originates from a recognized national observing system (IOOS NGDAC) and is preserved by NOAA NCEI.
• Contains multiple core physical oceanographic variables including temperature, salinity, conductivity, and density.
• Covers a specific two-week deployment period providing a coherent temporal snapshot.

Limitations

• Exact row count, file size, and specific column names are not provided in the metadata.
• Data is from a single glider deployment, limiting spatial and temporal generalizability.
• The dataset is from 2016 and may not reflect current ocean conditions.

Provenance

Source

North Carolina State University Ocean Observing Modeling Group, via IOOS National Glider Data Assembly Center and NOAA NCEI.

Collection Method

Measurements collected by an autonomous underwater glider (Salacia) and aggregated into netCDF format.

Time Range

2016-09-19 to 2016-10-03

Freshness

Last updated 2016-10-03; static archival dataset.

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean