Oceanographic Glider Trajectory Profiles from East Coast Deployment

Spray glider profile data from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution contains measurements of physical oceanographic properties like temperature, salinity, conductivity, and density. The data was collected by glider sp022 deployed in the East Coast US/Canada region from February to May 2017. NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information preserved the data submitted by the Integrated Ocean Observing System.

Use Cases

• Analyze temperature and salinity profiles over time to study seasonal changes in coastal waters.
• Model conductivity and density measurements to understand water column stratification.
• Track the glider's geospatial trajectory to map physical property distributions along the East Coast.
• Validate oceanographic models using in-situ measurements of physical properties from a specific deployment period.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific deployment period from 2017-02-09 to 2017-05-31.
• Includes multiple core physical oceanographic properties (temperature, salinity, conductivity, density).
• Checked for compliance with netCDF conventions and aggregated by a national data assembly center.

Limitations

• Specific row count, column names, and sample size are unknown.
• Data is from a single glider deployment, limiting spatial and temporal generalization.
• Data is from 2017, which may be stale for current climate studies.

Provenance

Source

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, submitted via IOOS National Glider Data Assembly Center.

Collection Method

Measured by a Spray glider during deployment, aggregated into netCDF files.

Time Range

2017-02-09 to 2017-05-31

Freshness

Data collection ended on 2017-05-31; no update frequency indicated.

Geography

East Coast - US/Canada region