Title Preprocessed Seaglider data collected during GINA 2017 by Seaglider SG574
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 (2020)
Contributors

Contact Person: Marjolaine Krug
Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) Senior Scientific Advisor - OCIMS 2nd Floor, Foretrust Building, 1 Martin Hammerschlag Way, Cape Town, South Africa, mkrug@environment.gov.za

Project Member: Craig Lee
Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington Professor 1013 NE 40th Street, Box 355640, Seattle, WA 98105-6698

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). 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 preliminary processed Seaglider data collected during GINA 2017 by Seaglider SG574.
Methods 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.
Data
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Temporal extent 25 Jun 2017 – 12 Aug 2017
Geographic extent

Agulhas Current shelf regions, South Africa

North: -29.1
South: -34.64
West: 27.074
East: 32.04

Vertical extent Max: 0.0 m
Min: -1000.0 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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