Spray Glider sp065 Physical Oceanographic Profiles, East Coast US/Canada 2018

From March 10 to June 29, 2018, this dataset contains profile measurements from a Spray glider deployed off the East Coast of the US and Canada. It was collected by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and archived by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information. The data includes physical oceanographic properties such as temperature, salinity, conductivity, and density.

Use Cases

• Modeling coastal ocean circulation based on temperature and salinity profiles.
• Analyzing seasonal water column stratification based on density measurements.
• Calibrating satellite-derived sea surface temperature data with in-situ glider measurements.
• Studying glider trajectory efficiency and mission planning based on the physical profile data.

Strengths

• Data spans a specific 111-day deployment from March to June 2018.
• Includes multiple core physical oceanographic variables (temperature, salinity, conductivity, density).
• Data underwent a compliance check and aggregation by the IOOS National Glider Data Assembly Center before archival.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2018-06-29 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, via IOOS National Glider Data Assembly Center and NOAA NCEI.

Collection Method

Deployment of a Spray glider (sp065) collecting in-situ profile measurements.

Time Range

2018-03-10 to 2018-06-29

Freshness

Last updated 2018-06-29 00:00:00

Geography

East Coast - US/Canada