Name: Seaglider test data collected during GINA 2017 by Seaglider SG574 in Cape Town harbour
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DOI: 10.15493/dea.mims.26052148

Title	Seaglider test data collected during GINA 2017 by Seaglider SG574 in Cape Town harbour
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); 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). 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 during the GINA 2017 deployment.
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.
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Temporal extent	31 May 2017 – 01 Jun 2017
Geographic extent	Cape Town Harbour, Table Bay North: -33.892 South: -33.906 West: 18.238 East: 18.269
Vertical extent	Max: 0.0 m Min: -78.8 m
Keywords	chlorophyll, depth, GINA, Ocean Gliders, PROFILERS, salinity, SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN, temperature, underwater in-situ observations
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) This digital object is required by CTD and bottle test data during GINA 2017 for Seaglider SG574 collected in Cape Town harbour (10.15493/dea.mims.26052147)

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