Seaglider test data collected during GINA 2017 by Seaglider SG574 in Cape Town harbour ...
The Gliders IN the Agulhas (GINA) project is a multi-institutional effort to implement sustained glider observations around South Africa’s coastline to enhance existing regional networks and complement larger international observations systems such as the Ocean Gliders Boundary Ocean Observing Netwo...
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Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
2020
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.15493/dea.mims.26052148 https://api.odp.saeon.ac.za/catalog/SAEON/go/10.15493/dea.mims.26052148 |
| Summary: | The Gliders IN the Agulhas (GINA) project is a multi-institutional effort to implement sustained glider observations around South Africa’s coastline to enhance existing regional networks and complement larger international observations systems such as the Ocean Gliders Boundary Ocean Observing Network (BOON). Ocean gliders are robotic platforms operated and piloted from land. The Seaglider during GINA was set-up to vertically profile the water column between depths of 0 and 1000m. Measurements collected included conductivity (salinity), temperature, depth (CTD), dissolved oxygen, chlorophyll-a fluorescence (proxy for phytoplankton concentration), Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) and two wavelengths of optical back-scattering by particles, Bb(470) and Bb(700) (proxies for particle concentration). In addition, information collected from the Seaglider was used to derive surface and depth averaged currents. This is Seaglider data, collected outside of Cape Town Harbour, used to calibrate Seaglider SG574 ... : This data has undergone preliminary processing by the University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory using Kongsberg’s Basestation software for Seagliders and has not been subjected to further quality control, such as sensor lag correction or outliers removals. ... |
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