Spray Glider sp066 Physical Oceanographic Profiles, East Coast US/Canada 2019

Spray glider sp066 collected 33 days of profile data on temperature, salinity, conductivity, and density off the East Coast of the US and Canada. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution deployed the glider, with data archived by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information. The data were aggregated and quality-checked by the Integrated Ocean Observing System's National Glider Data Assembly Center.

Use Cases

• Analyze vertical water column structure based on temperature and salinity profiles.
• Study coastal ocean dynamics and water mass properties based on conductivity and density measurements.
• Validate regional ocean circulation models based on in-situ physical oceanographic data.
• Monitor temporal changes in the marine environment during the summer deployment period.

Strengths

• Data originates from a known research institution, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
• Data underwent a compliance check and aggregation by the IOOS National Glider Data Assembly Center.
• Covers a specific 33-day deployment from July 24 to August 25, 2019.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2019-08-25 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Collected by a Spray glider deployment, aggregated into netCDF files.

Time Range

2019-07-24 to 2019-08-25

Freshness

2019-08-25 00:00:00

Geography

East Coast - US/Canada