IOOS Glider - ga_364-20161101T0058

The global component of the OOI design includes a network of moorings at critical, yet under-sampled, high-latitude locations such as the Argentine Basin in the South Atlantic. Moorings located in the Argentine Basin support sensors for measurement of air-sea fluxes of heat, moisture and momentum, and physical, biological and chemical properties throughout the water column. The Global Argentine Basin Array is a combination of fixed platforms (moorings), moored profilers that address the requirement to sample the full water column, and mobile platforms (gliders) that provide simultaneous spatial and temporal sampling capabilities. The array is composed of a Surface Mooring containing fixed instruments situated on the buoy and through the upper 1500 m of the water column, a subsurface Global Profiler Mooring made up of two wire-following profilers, one operating from ~300 m to 2500 m and the second from ~2500 m to 4600 m, and two Flanking Moorings that form a triangular array ~62 km on a side. These Flanking Moorings have their uppermost flotation at ~30 m depth and instruments at discrete depths along the mooring line to a depth of 1500 m. Open-Ocean Gliders sample within and around the triangular array equipped with acoustic modems to relay data from the Flanking Moorings to shore via satellite telemetry. Profiling Gliders sample the upper water column near the Apex Profiler Mooring.cdm_data_type = TrajectoryProfileVARIABLES:trajectory (Trajectory Name)wmo_idtime (Profile Time, seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z)latitude (Profile Latitude, degrees_north)longitude (Profile Longitude, degrees_east)profile_idtime_uv (Depth-averaged Time, seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z)lat_uv (Depth-averaged Latitude, degrees_north)lon_uv (Depth-averaged Longitude, degrees_east)u (Depth-averaged Eastward Sea Water Velocity, m s-1)v (Depth-averaged Northward Sea Water Velocity, m s-1)latitude_qc (latitude Variable Quality Flag)longitude_qc (longitude Variable Quality Flag)... (26 more variables)