North Atlantic Ocean Glider Physical Profile Data from 2019

Physical trajectory profile data collected by a University of South Florida glider deployment in the North Atlantic Ocean's Southeast US Atlantic Bight. The dataset contains measurements of oceanographic properties from September 9 to October 14, 2019, archived by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information.

Use Cases

• Analyze temperature and salinity profiles over the deployment's time-series to study water mass structure.
• Model density variations from conductivity and temperature measurements to understand stratification.
• Map the glider's geospatial trajectory against physical property readings for spatial analysis of ocean conditions.
• Validate regional ocean models using in-situ conductivity, temperature, and salinity data points.

Strengths

• Data originates from a specific, documented glider deployment over a 36-day time range.
• Measurements include core physical oceanographic properties: temperature, salinity, conductivity, and density.

Limitations

• Exact row count, column details, and sample size are unknown.
• Data is temporally limited to a single autumn season in 2019.
• Geographic scope is confined to the Southeast US Atlantic Bight region.

Provenance

Source

Integrated Ocean Observing System's National Glider Data Assembly Center (IOOS NGDAC), archived by NOAA NCEI.

Collection Method

In-situ measurements collected by a University of South Florida glider (Sam) and aggregated into netCDF files.

Time Range

2019-09-09 to 2019-10 14

Freshness

Static dataset from a 2019 deployment; no ongoing updates.

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean, Southeast US Atlantic Bight.