N: 12.1 S: 7.4 E: -48.6 W: -59.4
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Saildrone is a wind and solar powered unmanned surface vehicle (USV) capable of long distance deployments lasting up to 12 months and providing high quality, near real-time, multivariate surface ocean and atmospheric observations while transiting at typical speeds of 3-5 knots. The drone is autonomous in that it may be guided remotely from land while being completely wind driven. The saildrone ATOMIC (Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign) campaign involved the deployment of a fleet of saildrones, jointly funded by NASA and NOAA, in the Atlantic waters offshore of Barbados over a 45 day period from 17 January to 2 March 2020. The goal was to understand the Ocean-Atmosphere interaction particularly over the mesoscale ocean eddies in that region. The saildrones were equipped with a suite of instruments that included a CTD, IR pyrometer, fluorometer, dissolved oxygen sensor, anemometer, barometer, and Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP). Additionally, four temperature data loggers were positioned vertically along hull to provide further information on thermal variability near the ocean surface. This Saildrone ATOMIC dataset is comprised of two data files for each of the three NASA-funded saildrones deployed, one for the surface observations and one for the ADCP measuements. The surface data files contain saildrone platform telemetry and near-surface observational data (air temperature, sea surface skin and bulk temperatures, salinity, oxygen and chlorophyll-a concentrations, barometric pressure, wind speed and direction) spanning the entire cruise at 1 minute temporal resolution. The ADCP files for each saildrone are at 5 minute resolution for the duration of the deployments. All data files are in netCDF format and CF/ACDD compliant consistent with the NOAA/NCEI specification.
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Variables are a set of physical properties whose values determine the characteristics or behavior of something. For example, temperature and pressure are variables of the atmosphere. Parameters and variables can be used interchangeably. Variable level attributes provide individual information for each variable.
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| Name Sort descending | Description | Units | Data Type | Fill Value | Valid Range | Scale Factor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BARO_PRES_MEAN | Air pressure | hPa | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| BARO_PRES_STDDEV | Air pressure SD | hPa | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| bt_amp | bottom track echo amplitude | Counts | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| bt_cor | Bottom track correlation | Counts | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| bt_percent_good | Bottom track percent good | Percent | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| bt_range | Bottom track range | cm | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| bt_vel_east | Bottom track velocity east | (mm)s-1 | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| bt_vel_north | Bottom track velocity north | (mm)s-1 | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| bt_vel_up | Bottom track velocity up | (mm)s-1 | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| cell_depth | Depth of ADCP Measurement | m | double | N/A | 4.2 to 102.2 | 1 |
| CHLOR_RBR_MEAN | Chlorophyll concentration | microgram L-1 | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| CHLOR_RBR_STDDEV | Chlorophyll concentration SD | microgram L-1 | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| CHLOR_WETLABS_MEAN | Chlorophyll concentration | microgram L-1 | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| CHLOR_WETLABS_STDDEV | Chlorophyll concentration SD | microgram L-1 | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| COG | Course over ground | degree | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| COG_FILTERED_MEAN | Course over ground one minute mean | degree | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| COG_FILTERED_STDDEV | Course over ground one minute stddev | degree | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| COND_RBR_MEAN | Seawater conductivity | mS cm-1 | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| COND_RBR_STDDEV | Seawater conductivity SD | mS cm-1 | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| COND_SBE37_MEAN | Seawater conductivity | mS cm-1 | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| COND_SBE37_STDDEV | Seawater conductivity SD | mS cm-1 | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| correlation | Correlation | Counts | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| echo_intensity | Echo amplitude | Counts | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| error_vel | Error of velocity | ms-1 | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| GUST_WND_MEAN | Wind gust speed | m s-1 | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| GUST_WND_STDDEV | Wind gust speed SD | m s-1 | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| HDG | Vehicle heading | degree | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| HDG_FILTERED_MEAN | Vehicle heading one minute mean | degree | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| HDG_FILTERED_STDDEV | Vehicle heading one minute stddev | degree | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| HDG_WING | Wing heading | degree | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| heading | Vehicle heading | Degree | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| latitude | Latitude | degrees_north | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| longitude | Longitude | degrees_east | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| nav_end_latitude | Latitude of ensemble end | degrees_north | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| nav_end_longitude | Longitude of ensemble end | degrees_east | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| nav_end_time | Navigation end time | seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00+00:00 | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| nav_start_latitude | Latitude of ensemble start | degrees_north | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| nav_start_longitude | Longitude of ensemble start | degrees_east | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| nav_start_time | Navigation start time | seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00+00:00 | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| O2_CONC_RBR_MEAN | Oxygen concentration | micromol L-1 | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| O2_CONC_RBR_STDDEV | Oxygen concentration SD | micromol L-1 | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| O2_CONC_SBE37_MEAN | Oxygen concentration | micromol L-1 | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| O2_CONC_SBE37_STDDEV | Oxygen concentration SD | micromol L-1 | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| O2_SAT_RBR_MEAN | Oxygen saturation | percent | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| O2_SAT_RBR_STDDEV | Oxygen saturation SD | percent | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| O2_SAT_SBE37_MEAN | Oxygen saturation | percent | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| O2_SAT_SBE37_STDDEV | Oxygen saturation SD | percent | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| PAR_AIR_MEAN | Photosynthetically active radiation in air | micromol s-1 m-2 | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| PAR_AIR_STDDEV | Photosynthetically active radiation in air SD | micromol s-1 m-2 | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| percent_good | Total percent of good pings per ensemble | Percent | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |