ALACE subsurface drifter data in South Pacific, for March 1995 (NODC Accession 9500149)

• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: NOAA NCEI Environmental Data Archive 2016
• Subjects: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; 9500149; BAROMETRIC PRESSURE; DEPTH - SENSOR; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; WATER TEMPERATURE; bathythermograph - uBT; CTD; physical; Alaska State Department of Fish and Game - Kodiak; University of California - San Diego; Scripps Institution of Oceanography; North Atlantic Ocean; South Atlantic Ocean; South Pacific Ocean; oceanography; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN; Pacific; Scripps; Kodiak; North Atlantic; Alaska
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/{B3B5871D-B077-4AEC-9F14-8171DABEB4FD}

The ALACE (Autonomous LAgrangian Circulation Explorer) is a subsurface drifter, periodically rising to the surface to relay data to ARGOS. Instrument location is then obtained from ARGOS. An ALACE profiler collects data on ascent and relays a compressed data set to ARGOS. The amount of time spent at its neutrally-buoyant depth, and then at the surface, is variable, dependent upon the deployment site and the main scientific objective of the ALACE. Profiling ALACEs generally complete a cycle every 8-10 days, spending 24 hours at the surface transmitting to ARGOS.