North Atlantic Glider Trajectory Profile Data from NOAA AOML

North Atlantic Ocean physical profile data collected by NOAA's Seaglider SG547 from August to November 2016. The dataset contains measurements of oceanographic properties like temperature, salinity, conductivity, and density. It was gathered for a project on improving tropical cyclone forecasts and archived by the National Centers for Environmental Information.

Use Cases

• Analyze temperature and salinity profiles to map ocean heat content relevant for tropical cyclone intensity forecasting.
• Model water density variations from conductivity and temperature measurements to study ocean stratification.
• Track the glider's spatiotemporal trajectory to correlate physical property changes with location and depth.
• Validate ocean circulation models using in-situ conductivity, temperature, and density observations.

Strengths

• Data spans a 3-month continuous deployment period during the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season.
• Contains core physical oceanographic variables (temperature, salinity, conductivity, density) for profile analysis.
• Processed and checked for compliance by the Integrated Ocean Observing System's National Glider Data Assembly Center.

Limitations

• Dataset is from a single glider deployment, limiting spatial coverage to one trajectory path.
• Data is from 2016 and may not represent current ocean conditions.
• Specific row count, sampling resolution, and data size are unknown from the provided metadata.

Provenance

Source

NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), archived by National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).

Collection Method

Measurements collected by an autonomous Seaglider platform (SG547).

Time Range

2016-08-04 to 2016-11 02

Freshness

Static historical dataset; last updated 2016-11-02.

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean, along the deployment trajectory of glider SG547.