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    • Saildrone field campaign surface and ADCP measurements for the Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign (ATOMIC) project

    Metadata Updated: December 7, 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 ATOMIC (Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign) campaign involved the deployment of a fleet of saildrones, jointly funded by NASA and NOAA, in the Atlantic waters offshore of Barbados over a 45 day period from 17 January to 2 March 2020. The goal was to understand the Ocean-Atmosphere interaction particularly over the mesoscale ocean eddies in that region. The saildrones were 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 ATOMIC dataset is comprised of two data files for each of the three NASA-funded saildrones deployed, one for the surface observations and one for the ADCP measuements. The surface data files contain 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) spanning the entire cruise at 1 minute temporal resolution. The ADCP files for each saildrone are at 5 minute resolution for the duration of the deployments. 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 7, 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 7, 2023
    Publisher NASA/JPL/PODAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2491772162-POCLOUD
    Data First Published 2020-07-23
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2020-07-23
    Category ATOMIC, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Citation Saildrone. 2020-07-30. Saildrone ATOMIC field campaign surface measurements. Version 1.0. Saildrone Arctic ATOMIC 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-ATOM0. http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/saildrone. Saildrone, Saildrone Inc, 2020-07-30, Saildrone field campaign surface and ADCP measurements for the Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign (ATOMIC) project, http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/saildrone.
    Creator Saildrone
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    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/SDRON-ATOM0
    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 ATOMIC field campaign surface measurements
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    Temporal 2020-01-17T00:00:00Z/2020-03-02T23:59:59Z

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