WHOI Glider Physical Profile Data from East Coast Deployment

Spray glider profile data from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, deployed in the East Coast region of the US and Canada from August 24 to August 27, 2020. The dataset contains measurements of physical oceanographic properties. NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information received and preserved the data via the Integrated Ocean Observing System's National Glider Data Assembly Center.

Use Cases

• Analyze temperature and salinity profiles to study coastal water column structure.
• Model ocean density variations using conductivity and density measurements.
• Track glider trajectory and physical property changes over the 4-day deployment period.
• Validate regional oceanographic models with in-situ temperature and salinity data.

Strengths

• Data checked for compliance with netCDF conventions by IOOS NGDAC.
• Aggregated into a single netCDF file for long-term preservation.
• Contains measurements of multiple core physical properties (temperature, salinity, conductivity, density).

Limitations

• Dataset covers a short temporal range of only 4 days.
• Geographic coverage is limited to a specific East Coast deployment track.
• Specific row count, column names, and data resolution are unknown.

Provenance

Source

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), via NOAA NCEI and IOOS NGDAC.

Collection Method

Measured by a Spray glider deployed in the ocean, data aggregated and preserved by national centers.

Time Range

2020-08-24 to 2020-08-27

Freshness

Data collected in August 2020.

Geography

East Coast region of the United States and Canada.