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sylvia-20201015T1425

Metadata Updated: September 26, 2025

This project supports the deployment and realtime data delivery of autonomous underwater gliders in the coastal ocean to better resolve and understand essential ocean features and processes that contribute to hurricane intensification or weakening prior to making landfall. This is a partnership between NOAA Ocean and Atmospheric Research (OAR) through the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) and Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) regional associations such as MARACOOS, SECOORA, CariCOOS and institutions including the University of Puerto Rico, University of the Virgin Islands, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, University of Delaware, Virginia Institute of Marine Science - William & Mary, and Rutgers University. The goal of the project is to provide realtime data for ocean model validation and assimilation throughout hurricane season. This project is supported by the Disaster Recovery Act. The glider will transect offshore to the shelf break in-between Norfolk and Washington Canyon. The glider will repeat this cross-shelf transect for the first half of the deployment. For the second half of the deployment, glider sylvia will work in concert with glider amelia to complete the triangle pattern between Norfolk Canyon and Washington Canyon.

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Dates

Metadata Date September 19, 2025
Metadata Created Date June 14, 2024
Metadata Updated Date September 26, 2025
Reference Date(s) October 30, 2020 (creation), October 30, 2020 (issued)
Frequency Of Update

Metadata Source

Harvested from ioos

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Date September 19, 2025
Metadata Created Date June 14, 2024
Metadata Updated Date September 26, 2025
Reference Date(s) October 30, 2020 (creation), October 30, 2020 (issued)
Responsible Party Virginia Institute of Marine Science - William & Mary (Point of Contact)
Contact Email
Guid sylvia-20201015T1425
Access Constraints
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Licence
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Progress
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Temporal Extent Begin 2020-10-15T14:29:22Z
Temporal Extent End 2020-11-10T12:32:44Z

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