Slocum Glider CTD Profiles from the Mid-Atlantic Bight, 2017

Physical trajectory profile data from glider ud_134 deployed by the University of Delaware. The dataset contains CTD (conductivity, temperature, depth) measurements collected in the Mid-Atlantic Bight from July 25 to August 14, 2017. It was submitted to the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) via the Integrated Ocean Observing System's National Glider Data Assembly Center (IOOS NGDAC).

Use Cases

• Analyze vertical water column structure based on CTD measurements.
• Study coastal oceanographic fronts based on the mission's goal to cross chlorophyll fronts.
• Validate or calibrate ocean models using in-situ temperature and salinity profiles.
• Assess sensor performance for new optical instruments deployed on autonomous platforms.

Strengths

• Data collected via a Slocum glider profiling to a maximum depth of 100 meters.
• Contains physical oceanographic properties including temperature, salinity, conductivity, and density.
• Data was checked for compliance with netCDF conventions and aggregated by the IOOS NGDAC.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Last updated 2017-08-14 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

University of Delaware, NOAA NCEI, IOOS National Glider Data Assembly Center (NGDAC)

Collection Method

Collected by a Slocum glider equipped with a CTD sensor, aggregated and preserved by NCEI.

Time Range

2017-07-25 to 2017-08-14

Freshness

Last updated 2017-08-14 00:00:00

Geography

Mid-Atlantic Bight, off the Delaware coast