Glider Trajectory CTD Data from the Mid-Atlantic Bight, August-September 2017

NCEI Accession 0239035 contains physical oceanographic profile data from a University of Delaware Slocum glider deployment. The glider collected conductivity, temperature, and depth (CTD) measurements offshore of Delaware, profiling to a maximum of 100 meters over a two-week mission from August 25 to September 7, 2017. The data were aggregated and preserved by the Integrated Ocean Observing System's National Glider Data Assembly Center and the National Centers for Environmental Information.

Use Cases

• Analyze vertical profiles of seawater temperature and salinity based on the CTD measurements.
• Study coastal oceanographic fronts and water mass structure based on the glider's mission to cross chlorophyll fronts.
• Validate or calibrate oceanographic models for the Mid-Atlantic Bight based on in-situ physical property data.
• Assess the performance of autonomous underwater vehicle missions based on the two-week deployment and 100-meter profiling depth.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific two-week mission from 2017-08-25 to 2017-09-07.
• Measurements include core physical oceanographic properties: temperature, salinity, conductivity, and density.
• Data was checked for compliance with a netCDF file convention and aggregated by the IOOS National Glider Data Assembly Center.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Last updated 2017-09-07 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• The dataset contains CTD measurements only; optical sensor data from the mission is classified and not included.

Provenance

Source

University of Delaware, via IOOS National Glider Data Assembly Center and NOAA NCEI.

Collection Method

Collected by a Slocum glider (ud_134) equipped with a CTD sensor, profiling to 100m.

Time Range

2017-08-25 to 2017-09-07

Freshness

Last updated 2017-09-07 00:00:00

Geography

Mid-Atlantic Bight, offshore of the Delaware coast.