Title | Raw data collected by Seaglider SG573 off Cape Town for CTD calibration (SeaTrials 2) |
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Project | Gliders in the Agulhas (GINA) |
Authors |
Marjolaine Krug Sebastiaan Swart Juliet Hermes |
Publisher | Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (2024) |
Contributors |
Contact Person: Marjolaine Krug |
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 data collected by Seaglider SG573 off Cape Town for CTD calibration. |
Methods | Raw data in their original format, as received from the instrument and unprocessed. |
Data | |
Temporal extent | 23 Mar 2019 – 23 Mar 2019 |
Geographic extent |
South West Indian, South African East Coast, Agulhas Current
North: -33.8727 |
Vertical extent |
Max: 0 m Min: -47.60373067 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 |
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