Drifter data for the SPURS-1 N. Atlantic field campaign
(SPURS1_DRIFTER)| Version | 1.0 |
| Processing Level | 2 |
| Start/Stop Date | 2011-Oct-19 to 2015-Apr-07 |
| Short Name | SPURS1_DRIFTER |
| Description | The SPURS (Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study) project is an oceanographic process study and associated field program that aim to elucidate key mechanisms responsible for near-surface salinity variations in the oceans. The project involves two field campaigns and a series of cruises in regions of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans exhibiting salinity extremes. SPURS employs a suite of state-of-the-art in-situ sampling technologies that, combined with remotely sensed salinity fields from the Aquarius/SAC-D and SMOS satellites, provide a detailed characterization of salinity structure over a continuum of spatio-temporal scales. The SPURS-1 campaign involved a series of 5 cruises during 2012 - 2013 seeking to characterize the salinity structure and balance in a high salinity, high evaporation, and low rainfall region of the subtropical North Atlantic. It aims to resolve processes responsible for maintaining the subtropical surface salinity maximum in this region and within a 900 x 800-mile square study area centered at 25N, 38W. Approximately 83 drifters were deployed during the SPURS-1 campaign. A drifter is a passive Lagrangian sensor platform consisting of a surface buoy and tethered subsurface drogue. Drifter buoys contain GPS/ARGOS and satellite data transmitters, with sensors measuring temperature and other properties. For SPURS-1, these were standard Surface Velocity Program (SVP) drifters with salinity sensors added (SVP/S). Data for both US and European drifter deployments during SPURS-1 are available here. For each series, drifter data have been aggregrated within single netCDF data filea with their corresponding drifter-IDs and associaciated near-surface salinity, temperaure georeferenced (GPS and ARGOS) trajectory series data. |
| DOI | 10.5067/SPUR1-DRIFT |
| Measurement | OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > TEMPERATURE PROFILES OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY |
| Platform/Sensor | Drifter / Platform Name: SPURS-I SVP Drifters (Drifter) Orbit Period: 0.0 minutes Inclination Angle: 0.0 degrees CTD SENSOR Name: Conductivity, Temperature, Depth (CTD) Swath Width: 0.001 kilometers Description: Spacecraft angular distance from orbital plane relative to the Equator. |
| Project | NASA Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study (SPURS) |
| Data Provider | Publisher: SPURS Data Management PI, Fred Bingham Creator: SPURS PROJECT, Fred Bingham Release Place: Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, University on North Carolina, Wilmington, NC, USA Release Date: 2015-May-11 Resource: http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/SPURS |
| Format | netCDF-4 |
| Keyword(s) | Drifter, trajectory, Salinity, Temperature, surface, Upper Ocean, SPURS1, North Atlantic Ocean, salinity maximum region, insitu, SPURS |
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Resolution Spatial Resolution: 1 Meters x 1 Meters Temporal Resolution: 1 Day Coverage Region: SPURS-1 N.Atlantic Salinity maximum region North Bounding Coordinate: 35 degrees South Bounding Coordinate: 16 degrees West Bounding Coordinate: -66 degrees East Bounding Coordinate: -28 degrees Time Span: 2011-Oct-19 to 2015-Apr-07 Granule Time Span: 2011-Oct-19 to 2015-Apr-07 Projection Ellipsoid: WGS 84 |
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| Citation | SPURS PROJECT, Fred Bingham. 2015. SPURS-1 Field Campaign Drifter Data Products. Ver. 1.0. PO.DAAC, CA, USA. Dataset accessed [YYYY-MM-DD] at https://doi.org/10.5067/SPUR1-DRIFT
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| Journal Reference | L.R.Centurioni, V.Hormann, Y.Chao, G.Reverdin, J.Font, and D.K.Lee. Sea Surface Salinity Observations with Lagrangian Drifters in the Tropical North Atlantic During SPURS: Circulation, Fluxes, and Comparisons with Remotely Sensed Salinity from Aquarius, 2015. Oceanography 28(1):96-105, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2015.08. Hormann,V., L.R.Centurioni, G.Reverdin. Evaluation of Drifter Salinities in the Subtropical North Atlantic. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 32, no. 1 (2015/01/01 2014): 185-92. . |
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