Name: Raw Sloccum data collected during GINA 2018
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

DOI: 10.15493/DEA.MIMS.20240815

Title	Raw Sloccum data collected during GINA 2018
Project	Gliders in the Agulhas (GINA)
Authors	Marjolaine Krug Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE); role: Senior Scientific Advisor; contact details:email:mkrug@dffe.gov.za Sebastiaan Swart University of Gothenburg; role: Professor; contact details: email: sebastiaan.swart@marine.gu.se Juliet Hermes South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON); role: Node Manager; contact details: email: jc.hermes@saeon.nrf.ac.za
Publisher	Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (2024)
Contributors	Contact Person: Marjolaine Krug Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE); role: Senior Scientific Advisor; contact details: email: mkrug@dffe.gov.za
Abstract	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). This dataset includes all data collected by Seaglider SG573 during the first GINA deployment in 2018. The Seaglider 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 raw Sloccum data collected during GINA 2018.
Methods	Raw data in their original format, as received from the instrument and unprocessed.
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Temporal extent	14 Sep 2018 – 26 Sep 2018
Geographic extent	South West Indian, South African East Coast, Agulhas Current North: -27.8056 South: -29.9987 West: 31.2969 East: 32.7018
Vertical extent	Max: 0 m Min: -1000 m
Keywords	Agulhas Current, chlorophyll, Coastal observations, depth, depth-averaged currents, GINA, in situ, INDIAN OCEAN, Ocean Gliders, PAR, PROFILERS, salinity, shelf observations, surface currents, temperature
Related resources	This digital object is described by 10.1029/2018EO100105 This digital object is part of Gliders In the Agulhas (GINA) Seaglider project (10.15493/dea.mims.26052144)

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