Spray Glider sp069: Physical Oceanographic Profiles from the US/Canada East Coast, 2017

East Coast - US/Canada waters contain physical oceanographic profile data collected by a Spray glider (sp069) from September 7 to November 16, 2017. The data includes measurements of temperature, salinity, conductivity, and density. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution deployed the glider, and the data was archived by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI Accession 0171252).

Use Cases

• Analyzing seasonal water column structure based on temperature and salinity profiles.
• Studying coastal ocean dynamics and currents based on glider trajectory and density data.
• Validating regional ocean models based on in-situ conductivity and temperature measurements.
• Assessing data quality and aggregation methods for glider-based observing networks.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 71-day deployment from 2017-09-07 to 2017-11-16.
• Includes key physical oceanographic properties: temperature, salinity, conductivity, and density.
• Data was aggregated and checked for compliance by the Integrated Ocean Observing System's National Glider Data Assembly Center (IOOS NGDAC).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2017-11-16 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 (deployment), NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) via IOOS National Glider Data Assembly Center (NGDAC).

Collection Method

In-situ measurements collected by a Spray glider, aggregated into netCDF files.

Time Range

2017-09-07 to 2017-11-16

Freshness

Data collection ended on 2017-11-16.

Geography

East Coast - US/Canada