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    • Saildrone Baja field campaign surface and ADCP measurements

    Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

    Saildrone is a wind and solar powered unmanned surface vehicle (USV) capable of long distance deployments lasting up to 12 months and providing high quality, near real-time, multivariate surface ocean and atmospheric observations while transiting at typical speeds of 3-5 knots. The drone is autonomous in that it may be guided remotely from land while being completely wind driven. The saildrone Baja campaign was a 60-day cruise from San Francisco Bay, down along the US/Mexico coast to Guadalupe Island and back again over the period 11 April 2018 to 11 June 2018. Repeat surveys were taken around NDBC moored buoys, and during the final week of the cruise a targeted front was sampled. Scientific objectives included studies of upwelling and frontal region dynamics, air-sea interactions, and diurnal warming effects, while its validation objectives included establishing the utility of data from the saildrone platform for assessment of satellite data accuracy and model assimilation. During the Baja campaign, the single deployed saildrone was equipped with a suite of instruments that included a CTD, IR pyrometer, fluorometer, dissolved oxygen sensor, anemometer, barometer, and Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP). Additionally, four temperature data loggers were positioned vertically along hull to provide further information on thermal variability near the ocean surface. This Saildrone Baja dataset is comprised of one data file with the saildrone platform telemetry and near-surface observational data (air temperature, sea surface skin and bulk temperatures, salinity, oxygen and chlorophyll-a concentrations, barometric pressure, wind speed and direction) for the entire cruise at 1 minute temporal resolution. A second file contains the ADCP current vector data that is depth-resolved to 100m at 2m intervals and binned temporally at 5 minute resolution. All data files are in netCDF format and CF/ACDD compliant consistent with the NOAA/NCEI specification.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. 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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    Metadata Created Date May 30, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023

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    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date May 30, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
    Publisher NASA/JPL/PODAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2491772165-POCLOUD
    Data First Published 2018-11-27
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2018-11-27
    Category Saildrone Baja, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Citation Saildrone. 2018-12-19. Saildrone Baja field campaign surface and ADCP measurements. Version 1.0. Saildrone Baja Field Campaign Products. Saildrone Inc. 1050 W Tower Ave, Alameda, CA 94501. Archived by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Government, Saildrone Inc. https://doi.org/10.5067/SDRON-SURF0. http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/saildrone. Saildrone, Saildrone Inc, 2018-12-19, Saildrone Baja field campaign surface and ADCP measurements, http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/saildrone.
    Creator Saildrone
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    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/SDRON-SURF0
    Metadata Type geospatial
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    Program Code 026:001
    Release Place Saildrone Inc. 1050 W Tower Ave, Alameda, CA 94501
    Series Name Saildrone Baja field campaign surface and ADCP measurements
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    Temporal 2018-04-11T18:00:00Z/2018-06-11T20:17:26Z

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