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    • SWOT Postlaunch Field Campaign Data from Gliders

    Metadata Updated: March 12, 2026

    The SWOT Postlaunch Oceanography Field Campaign Data from Gliders collection provides the provides the conductivity, temperature and depth (CTD) measurements and current velocity measurements from autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) deployed by the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) postlaunch field campaign. The SWOT satellite mission launched in late 2022 and underwent a calibration and validation (cal/val) phase in 2023. As part of cal/val, an array of oceanographic instruments was deployed at a site 300 km offshore of California. Two Slocum gliders from Rutgers University were deployed from March to August 2023 as part of the SWOT cal/val effort.

    Gliders are autonomous vehicles that move up and down in the water column by changing their buoyancy, and while doing so, generate forward propulsion with wings and attitude control much like a glider airplane. The gliders were equipped with CTD sensors for temperature and salinity, and operated in the upper 1000 m of the ocean. Each up/down motion generates a CTD profile, much like a ship-based CTD system or the moored CTD profilers but with some lateral motion in addition to the vertical profiling. The glider data here are provided as full time series, rather than being sorted into profiles.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date July 3, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date March 12, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date July 3, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date March 12, 2026
    Publisher NASA/JPL/PODAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier 10.5067/SWTPO-GLDR1
    Data Last Modified 2026-03-10
    Category Earth Science
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 2a0c7793-14ea-4056-8a55-9b9b635f8004
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    License https://www.usa.gov/government-works
    Old Spatial {"WestBoundingCoordinate":-125.28,"EastBoundingCoordinate":-121.88,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":35.3,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":36.85},"CARTESIAN"
    Program Code 026:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash d30fb0f1f1e401b416352507c3a1d3563f6c1588675861c35b52562a666659a7
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2023-03-30/2023-08-02

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