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    • ru29-20130111T0724-delayed

    Metadata Updated: September 27, 2025

    First leg of the ru29 Challenger mission from South Africa to Brazil. The glider was deployed off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa and transected to Ascension Island. The Challenger Mission is a re-creation of the first global scientific ocean survey conducted by the HMS Challenger in 1872. A fleet of up to 16 autonomous underwater gliders will be deployed in all five ocean basins. The goals of the project are the spread ocean literacy, educate the general population about the ocean's impact on global climate and provide real-time temperature, salinity and density profiles for assimilation into regional and global weather forecasting models. This is the high-resolution delayed mode data set containing CTD measurements of temperature, salinity and density.

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    License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Date September 19, 2025
    Metadata Created Date December 26, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date September 27, 2025
    Reference Date(s) September 19, 2024 (creation), September 19, 2024 (issued)
    Frequency Of Update

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from ioos

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Date September 19, 2025
    Metadata Created Date December 26, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date September 27, 2025
    Reference Date(s) September 19, 2024 (creation), September 19, 2024 (issued)
    Responsible Party Rutgers Center for Ocean Observing Leadership Glider Data Team (Point of Contact)
    Contact Email
    Guid ru29-20130111T0724-delayed
    Access Constraints
    Bbox East Long 18.248117
    Bbox North Lat -6.662612
    Bbox South Lat -33.853603
    Bbox West Long -14.979721
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    Frequency Of Update
    Harvest Object Id d6d1a541-cd6e-4b61-8657-a2ca9c6c5819
    Harvest Source Id 54e15a6e-6dde-4c9c-a8f0-345cc0dfccfb
    Harvest Source Title ioos
    Licence
    Lineage 2024-09-19T01:06:56Z: /tmp/tmplmu5b6su/ru29_20131024T103837Z_rt_xktp8ru.nc created 2024-09-19T01:06:56Z: /home/kerfoot/code/gncutils/scripts/dba_to_profile_nc.py /home/coolgroup/slocum/deployments/2013/ru29-20130111T0724/data/in/ascii/queue/ru29_2013_270_3_93_sbd.dat 2024-09-21T19:44:17Z: glider_qartod_qc.py 2024-09-21T20:00:28Z: interpolate_depth.py 2024-09-21T20:18:32Z: ctd_hysteresis_test.py 2024-09-21T20:36:15Z: summarize_qartod_flags.py
    Metadata Language eng
    Metadata Type geospatial
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    Progress
    Spatial Data Service Type ERDDAP tabledap
    Spatial Reference System
    Spatial Harvester True
    Temporal Extent Begin 2013-01-11T07:39:47Z
    Temporal Extent End 2013-10-24T10:38:40Z

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