N: 32.283 S: -10.074 E: -124.78 W: -179.999
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The SPURS (Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study) project is a NASA-funded oceanographic process study and associated field program that aim to elucidate key mechanisms responsible for near-surface salinity variations in the oceans. The project is comprised of 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, SMAP and SMOS satellites, provide a detailed characterization of salinity structure over a continuum of spatio-temporal scales. The SPURS-2 campaign involved two month-long cruises by the R/V Revelle in August 2016 and October 2017 combined with complementary sampling on a more continuous basis over this period by the schooner Lady Amber. Focused around a central mooring located near 10N,125W, the objective of SPURS-2 was to study the dynamics of the rainfall-dominated surface ocean at the western edge of the eastern Pacific fresh pool subject to high seasonal variability and strong zonal flows associated with the North Equatorial Current and Countercurrent. 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-2, a range of drifters were deployed during both Revelle SPURS-2 cruises. These included: standard Surface Velocity Program (SVP) drifters with salinity sensors added (SVP/S), Surface Contact Salinity drifters, CODE, SADOS, AOML and CARTHE-SUPRACT drifters. For each series, drifter data have been aggregrated within single netCDF data files with their corresponding drifter-IDs and associated near-surface salinity, temperature georeferenced (GPS and ARGOS) trajectory series data.
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| Name Sort descending | Description | Units | Data Type | Fill Value | Valid Range | Scale Factor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| drifter_velocity | Drifter Velocity | m/s | double | N/A | 0.051323903154038 to 1.3612749606042 | 1 |
| latitude | Latitude of AOML Drifter measurement | degrees_north | double | N/A | 6.298 to 15.982 | 1 |
| longitude | Longitude of AOML Drifter measurement | degrees_east | double | N/A | -125.029 to -92.536 | 1 |
| quality_flag_for_salinity_at_5m | Ones indicate good data and NaNs indicate bad data. | unitless | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| quality_flag_for_surface_salinity | Ones indicate good data and NaNs indicate bad data. | unitless | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| quality_flag_for_surface_temperature | Ones indicate good data and NaNs indicate bad data. | unitless | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| quality_flag_for_temperature_at_5m | Ones indicate good data and NaNs indicate bad data. | unitless | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| salinity_at_5m | Sea water salinity at 5m of AOML Drifter measurement | 1 | double | N/A | 30.685557800315 to 34.260681536017 | 1 |
| surface_salinity | Sea surface salinity of AOML Drifter measurement | 1 | double | N/A | 30.310006487198 to 34.714424291713 | 1 |
| surface_temperature | Sea surface temperature of AOML Drifter measurement | degrees_C | double | N/A | 23.370014508766 to 31.8 | 1 |
| temperature_at_5m | Sea water temperature at 5m of AOML Drifter measurement | degrees_C | double | N/A | 23.370014508766 to 30.57 | 1 |
| time | Time of AOML Drifter measurement | days since 1950-01-01T00:00:00 | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |