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    • SPURS-2 Saildrone data for the E. Tropical Pacific field campaign

    Metadata Updated: December 7, 2023

    The SPURS (Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study) project is a NASA-funded oceanographic process study and associated field program that aim to elucidate key mechanisms responsible for near-surface salinity variations in the oceans. The project is comprised of two field campaigns and a series of cruises in regions of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans exhibiting salinity extremes. SPURS employs a suite of state-of-the-art in-situ sampling technologies that, combined with remotely sensed salinity fields from the Aquarius/SAC-D, SMAP and SMOS satellites, provide a detailed characterization of salinity structure over a continuum of spatio-temporal scales. The SPURS-2 campaign involved two month-long cruises by the R/V Revelle in August 2016 and October 2017 combined with complementary sampling on a more continuous basis over this period by the schooner Lady Amber. Focused around a central mooring located near 10N,125W, the objective of SPURS-2 was to study the dynamics of the rainfall-dominated surface ocean at the western edge of the eastern Pacific fresh pool subject to high seasonal variability and strong zonal flows associated with the North Equatorial Current and Countercurrent. Two saildrones were deployed over a month period during the second SPURS-2 R/V Revelle cruise in 2017. Saildrone is a state-of-the-art, remotely guided, wind and solar powered unmanned surface vehicle (USV) capable of long distance deployments lasting up to 12 months. It is equipped with a suite of instruments and sensors providing high quality, georeferenced, near real-time, multi-parameter surface ocean and atmospheric observations while transiting at typical speeds of 3-5 knots. Saildrone data files are in netCDF format and CF/ACDD/NCEI compliant. They contain 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.

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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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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date May 30, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023
    Publisher NASA/JPL/PODAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2491772348-POCLOUD
    Data First Published 2019-03-26
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2019-03-26
    Category SPURS, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Citation D. Zhang, and M.F. Cronin. 2019-03-28. SPURS-2 Saildrone data for the E. Tropical Pacific field campaign. Version 1.0. SPURS Field Campaign ARGO float Products. NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA, USA. Archived by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Government, SPURS Data Management PI, Fred Bingham. https://doi.org/10.5067/SPUR2-SDRON. http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/SPURS. D. Zhang, and M.F. Cronin, SPURS Data Management PI, Fred Bingham, 2019-03-28, SPURS-2 Saildrone data for the E. Tropical Pacific field campaign, http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/SPURS.
    Creator D. Zhang, and M.F. Cronin
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    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/SPUR2-SDRON
    Metadata Type geospatial
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    Program Code 026:001
    Release Place NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA, USA
    Series Name SPURS-2 Saildrone data for the E. Tropical Pacific field campaign
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    Temporal 2017-10-16T00:00:00Z/2017-11-17T00:00:00Z

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