Repository of community practices in Ocean Research, Applications and Data/Information Management
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Dissipation measurements using temperature microstructure from an underwater glider.
(2014)Microstructure measurements of temperature and current shear are made using an autonomous underwater glider. The glider is equipped with fast-response thermistors and airfoil shearprobes, providing measurements of dissipation ... -
An assessment of the use of ocean gliders to undertake acoustic measurements of zooplankton: the distribution and density of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) in the Weddell Sea.
(2014)A calibrated 120 kHz single‐beam echo‐sounder was integrated into an ocean glider and deployed in the Weddell Sea, Southern Ocean. The glider was deployed for two short periods in January 2012, in separate survey boxes on ... -
Manual for Quality Control of Temperature and Salinity Data Observations from Gliders. Version 1.0.
(U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service, Integrated Ocean Observing System, U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System, Glider Data Assembly Center, Silver Spring, MD, 2016)This manual describes the tests required to ensure the quality control (QC) of real-time data collected by sensors attached to profiling gliders. Profiling gliders are self-propelled (buoyancy driven), autonomous underwater ... -
2017 U.S. Underwater Glider Workshop Report, January 18-19, 2017
(Interagency Ocean Observation Committee, Washington, DC, 2017)Autonomous underwater gliders provide an advanced and cost-effective mechanism for collecting essential oceanographic data at spatial and temporal scales that help the United States achieve critical research and operational ... -
Using Optical Sensors on Gliders to Estimate Phytoplankton Carbon Concentrations and Chlorophyll-to-Carbon Ratios in the Southern Ocean.
(2017)One approach to deriving phytoplankton carbon biomass estimates (Cphyto) at appropriate scales is through optical products. This study uses a high-resolution glider data set in the Sub-Antarctic Zone (SAZ) of the Southern ... -
EGO gliders NetCDF format reference manual: NetCDF conventions Reference tables and files distribution. Version 1.2. [SUPERSEDED by DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-768]
(IFREMER, 2017)This document specifies the NetCDF file format of EGO-gliders that is used to distribute glider data, metadata and technical data. It documents the standards used therein; this includes naming conventions as well as metadata ... -
Guidelines for the delayed mode scientific correction of glider data. WP 5 , Task 5.7, D5.15. Version 4.1.
(SOCIB - Balearic Islands Coastal Observing and Forecasting System for JERICO-NEXT, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 2018)Gliders are a rapidly maturing class of marine observing vehicles that offer long duration, some operate for several months at a time, autonomous ocean profiling in all weather conditions and sea states, to depths typically ... -
8th EGO Meeting & International Glider Workshop Meeting Summary.
(U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System, Siver Spring, MD, 2019)The goal of the 8th EGO Meeting and International Glider Workshop, held May 21-23, 2019, was to strengthen international collaboration through community dialogue, exchanges of information, sharing of experiences, and ... -
Ocean Gliders delayed mode QA/QC best practice manual Version 2.1. [SUPERSEDED by DOI: 10.26198/5c997b5fdc9bd]
(Integrated Marine Observing System, Hobart, Australia, 2019)This document is the IMOS Ocean Gliders' Best Practice manual for delayed mode processed data. Ocean Gliders is a facility under Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS). This document describes the quality ... -
GliderTools: A Python Toolbox for Processing Underwater Glider Data.
(2019)Underwater gliders have become widely used in the last decade. This has led to a proliferation of data and the concomitant development of tools to process the data. These tools are focused primarily on converting the ... -
Ocean Gliders delayed mode QA/QC best practice manual Version 2.0. [SUPERSEDED by http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-685]
(Integrated Marine Observing System, Hobart, Australia, 2019)This document is the IMOS Ocean Gliders' Best Practice manual for delayed mode processed data. Ocean Gliders is a facility under Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS). This document describes the quality ... -
SeaDataNet data management protocols for glider data. D9.14, Version 1.2.
(SeaDataNet, 2019)The purpose of this document is to: i) ensure that SeaDataNet partners exposed to glider data are aware of glider data management best practice and have the knowledge needed to assimilate glider data into SeaDataNet and ... -
Near-Automatic Routine Field Calibration/Correction of Glider Salinity Data Using Whitespace Maximization Image Analysis of Theta/S Data.
(2020)Glider vehicles are now perhaps some of the most prolific providers of real-time and near-real-time operational oceanographic data. However, the data from these vehicles can and should be considered to have a long-term ... -
Arctic Marine Data Collection Using Oceanic Gliders: Providing Ecological Context to Cetacean Vocalizations.
(2020)To achieve effective management and understanding of risks associated with increasing anthropogenic pressures in the ocean, it is essential to successfully and efficiently collect data with high spatio–temporal resolution ... -
Detections of whale vocalizations by simultaneously deployed bottom-moored and deep-water mobile autonomous hydrophones.
(2020)Advances in mobile autonomous platforms for oceanographic sensing, including gliders and deep-water profiling floats, have provided new opportunities for passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) of cetaceans. However, there are ... -
Near real-time marine mammal monitoring from gliders: Practical challenges, system development, and management implications.
(2020)In 2017, an endangered North Atlantic right whale mortality event in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada, triggered the implementation of dynamic mitigation measures that required real-time information on whale distributio ... -
Slocum Gliders Provide Accurate Near Real-Time Estimates of Baleen Whale Presence From Human-Reviewed Passive Acoustic Detection Information.
(2020)Mitigating the effects of human activities on marine mammals often depends on monitoring animal occurrence over long time scales, large spatial scales, and in real time. Passive acoustics, particularly from autonomous ... -
EGO gliders NetCDF format reference manual : NetCDF conventions Reference tables and files distribution. Version 1.3.
(IFREMER, 2020)This document specifies the NetCDF file format of EGO-gliders that is used to distribute glider data, metadata and technical data. It documents the standards used therein; this includes naming conventions as well as metadata ... -
Air-Sea Gas Fluxes and Remineralization From a Novel Combination of pH and O2 Sensors on a Glider.
(2021)Accurate, low-power sensors are needed to characterize biogeochemical variability on underwater glider missions. However, the needs for high accuracy and low power consumption can be difficult to achieve together. To ... -
Glider-Based Estimates of Meso-Zooplankton Biomass Density: a Fisheries Case Study on Antarctic Krill (Euphausia superba) around the Northern Antarctic Peninsula.
(2021)We compare estimates of krill density derived from gliders to those from contemporaneous and previous ship-based surveys. Our comparisons cover several temporal and spatial scales within two strata around the northern ...
