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Sea water temperature, salinity, and others collected by gliders SG643 and SG640 in the South Atlantic and Southern Oceans from 2018-12-14 to 2020-02-17 (NCEI Accession 0244004)

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: January 26, 2026 | Last Modified: 2021-12-15T00:00:00.000+00:00
This dataset is a hydrographic survey collected by sensors mounted on gliders in the Weddell Sea sector of the Antarctic Marginal Ice Zone, as part of the Robotic Observations and Modeling of the Marginal Ice Zone (ROAMMIZ) project. The gliders, SG643 (Caltech) and SG640 (Gothenburg University), were deployed from the research vessel SA AGULHAS II in the austral summer of 2018 and spring of 2019, respectively. Each of the profiles provide temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, fluorescence, optical backscatter (at 470 and 700 nm) and Depth Averaged Currents. The deployment in 2018 also includes PAR. Data were measured to a depth of 1000 m except for fluorescence and backscatter which recorded to a depth of 400 m. Horizontal resolution ranges from 300 m to 5000 m as a result of the V-shaped sampling pattern characteristic of gliders. The concatenated files provide processed and calibrated temperature, salinity, chlorophyll and backscatter data using near-by CTD casts on deployment and recovery of the gliders. The individual profiles have been processed on the Kongsberg basestation and the thermal lag correction of Charlie Erickson (unpublished) applied, but the data is otherwise not post-calibrated. The raw data of SG643 is also provided in case the user would like to re-process the data. Otherwise, the data are in NetCDF. Data were collected with support from ROAMMIZ Project; Terrestrial Hazard Observations and Reporting (THOR) Center and Linde Center at Caltech; Packard Foundation.

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0244004 CHLOROPHYLL - RELATIVE FLUORESCENCE CONDUCTIVITY DISSOLVED OXYGEN FLUORESCENCE OPTICAL BACKSCATTER PHOTOSYNTHETIC ACTIVE RADIATION (PAR) SALINITY WATER DENSITY WATER TEMPERATURE CTD PAR Sensor chemical in situ physical S.A. AGULHAS II SG640 SG643 California Institute of Technology University of Gothenburg University of Gothenburg South Atlantic Ocean Southern Ocean Weddell Sea oceanography GU > University of Gothenburg, Sweden Robotic Observations And Modelling in the Marginal Ice Zone (ROAM-MIZ) EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > CHLOROPHYLL EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > OXYGEN EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > FLUORESCENCE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > CONDUCTIVITY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > DENSITY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY Depth Averaged Currents CTD > Conductivity, Temperature, Depth PAR SENSORS > Photosynthetically Active Radiation Sensors Aandera Optode CT-Sail mounted on a Seaglider Sea-Bird CT-Sail mounted on a Seaglider Sea-Bird Eco Puck mounted on a Seaglider SEAGLIDER Ships S. A. Agulhas II (call sign: ZSNO, ICES code: 91AH, 2009-) OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > WEDDELL SEA JWEDJ7

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