Physical, meteorological, and oceanographic data collected from the Saildrone 1029 deployment as part of the NOAA/PMEL TPOS 2018 Mission to the Eastern and Central Equatorial Pacific Ocean from 2018-10-03 to 2019-01-27 (NCEI Accession 0301268)

This file contains the real time data from the Saildrone core sensors for the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) TPOS 2018 Mission (Mission 2) to the central equatorial Pacific (0, 140W). These data have not been Quality Control (QC). This was the second of three missions funded by NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR)/CPO/GOMO and NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) as a pilot study for the Tropical Pacific Observing System (TPOS)-2020 project. The drone was each equipped with full atmospheric and ocean core sensor suite, and an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) (not included in this file). SD1029 also carried shortwave and longwave radiation (included in core set) and an ASVCO2 carbon flux and pH system; these carbon data are served in a separate file. For this drone, the core Conductivity, Temperature, Depth (CTD) was an RBR located in the flowthrough tunnel in the keel. The carbon system also had an independent prawler CTD that is higher quality than the RBR. The vehicle were deployed out of Honolulu, HI on October 3, 2018. After sailing near a PMEL Carbon mooring in Kaneohe Bay, HI, the drone proceeded to the Tropical Atmosphere/Ocean (TAO) mooring at 9N, 140W. Navigation issues caused the mission to be aborted early (mid-December 2018), before further science tasks could be completed. Saildrone 1029 was recovered in Honolulu on 01-27-19.