Physical data collected from Seaglider SG005 during Washington Coast, September 2002 in the North Pacific Ocean, Coastal Waters of Washington/Oregon deployed from 2002-09-11 to 2002-11-03 (NCEI Accession 0155983)

Seaglider is a buoyancy driven autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) developed by scientists and engineers at the University of Washington's School of Oceanography and Applied Physics Laboratory. Seagliders are designed to glide from the ocean surface to a programmed depth and back while measuring temperature, salinity, depth-averaged current, and other quantities along a sawtooth trajectory through the water. Seaglider has entered wide use in scientific deployments. They are designed for missions in range of several thousand kilometers and durations of many months. Seagliders are commanded remotely and report their measurements in near real time via wireless telemetry.海滑翔机（Seaglider）是由华盛顿大学海洋学院与应用物理实验室的科研人员与工程师联合研发的浮力驱动式自主水下航行器（autonomous underwater vehicle, AUV）。该型航行器的设计思路为在海面与预设深度之间往复滑翔，同时沿锯齿状水下轨迹同步测量水温、盐度、深度平均流速及其他相关海洋参数。海滑翔机已在科学科考部署中得到广泛应用，其可支持数千公里的任务航程与长达数月的持续作业时长。该型水下航行器可通过远程指令进行操控，并借助无线遥测技术近乎实时地回传采集到的测量数据。