Physical trajectory profile data from glider ru26d deployed by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Center for Ocean Observing Leadership (RU COOL) in the Southern Ocean from 2017-12-11 to 2018-01-21 (NCEI Accession 0238805)

The purpose of this glider mission is to take cross
sections of temperature and salinity in the continental shelf near
Palmer Station. The Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program
in Antarctica is a long term study focused on understanding how
the marine system regulates the ecology of the West Antarctic
Peninsula. The project is focused on how the ecology is changing
given the West Antarctic Peninsula is the fastest winter warming
place on Earth. This dataset includes temperature and salinity
profiles only.

The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) received the data in this archival package from the Integrated Ocean Observing System's National Glider Data Assembly Center (IOOS NGDAC). The IOOS NGDAC received the data in one or more netCDF files comprising an entire glider deployment. The data are measurements of physical oceanographic properties such as temperature, salinity, conductivity, and density. The IOOS NGDAC checked the files for compliance to their netCDF file convention, aggregated the files into a single netCDF file, and then submitted the file to NCEI for long-term preservation.