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    • ru29-20221116T1326

    Metadata Updated: September 27, 2025

    The Challenger Glider Mission is a re-creation of the first global scientific ocean survey conducted by the HMS Challenger from 1872-1876. The goals of the mission are to establish a collaborative international network of autonomous underwater glider ports, to assess global ocean model predictive skill while contributing real-time profile data for assimilation in ocean forecast models by operational centers worldwide, and to crowd source student-based ocean research and discovery. This glider is providing temperature, conductivity, salinity, density and current profile observations. The current profiles are logged via external Nortek AD2CP files and are not available in this real-time dataset. RU29s planned mission extends from the US Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, St. Martin (Fr), Sint Maarten (NED), St. Barthélemy (Fr), Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Guadeloupe, areas commonly impacted by tropical cyclones. Real-time datasets will include CTD data that will be provided to the IOOS Glider DAC and GTS to support ocean and atmospheric weather forecasting.

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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 June 14, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date September 27, 2025
    Reference Date(s) November 19, 2022 (creation), November 19, 2022 (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 June 14, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date September 27, 2025
    Reference Date(s) November 19, 2022 (creation), November 19, 2022 (issued)
    Responsible Party Rutgers University (Point of Contact)
    Contact Email
    Guid ru29-20221116T1326
    Access Constraints
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    Frequency Of Update
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    Harvest Source Id 54e15a6e-6dde-4c9c-a8f0-345cc0dfccfb
    Harvest Source Title ioos
    Licence
    Lineage 2022-11-19T05:00:05Z: /tmp/tmpe66ytvua/ru29_20221119T005843Z_rttk7vy59j.nc created 2022-11-19T05:00:05Z: /home/kerfoot/code/gncutils/scripts/dba_to_profile_nc.py /home/coolgroup/slocum/deployments/2022/ru29-20221116T1326/data/in/ascii/queue/ru29_2022_320_0_25_sbd.dat
    Metadata Language eng
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    Progress
    Spatial Data Service Type ERDDAP tabledap
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    Spatial Harvester True
    Temporal Extent Begin 2022-11-16T13:34:03Z
    Temporal Extent End 2022-12-07T18:09:13Z

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