N: 12.022 S: 8.994 E: -122.128 W: -126.122
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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. The Seaglider is an autonomous profiler measuring salinity and temperature. A total of five Seagliders were deployed over the two SPURS2 cruises. Three Seagliders were deployed on the first Revelle cruise in August 2016, recovered by the Lady Amber after 7 months and redeployed, to be retrieved finally during the second cruise in November 2017. One of the Seagliders was deployed alongside and tracked the Lagrangian array across the study region, diving to depths of 1000m. All Seaglider data files are in netCDF format with standards compliant metadata.
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| Name Sort descending | Description | Units | Data Type | Fill Value | Valid Range | Scale Factor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| conductivity | Conductivity corrected for anomalies | S/m | double | N/A | 3.2466741257085 to 5.598487761519 | 1 |
| ctd_data_point_dive_number | Dive number for given ctd_data_point observation | N/A | int | -2147483648 | N/A | 1 |
| ctd_depth | Depth | m | double | N/A | 0.00012663978892152 to 1000.0242036548 | 1 |
| ctd_pressure | Pressure at CTD thermistor | dbar | double | N/A | -117.86840710417 to 1008.1399159771 | 1 |
| ctd_time | Time of CTD sample | days since 1950-01-01T00:00:00 | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| end_latitude | Ending latitude of the dive | degrees_north | double | N/A | 9.6685666666667 to 10.470533333333 | 1 |
| end_longitude | Ending longitude of the dive | degrees_east | double | N/A | -126.03316666667 to -124.65786666667 | 1 |
| end_time | Ending time of the dive | days since 1950-01-01T00:00:00 | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| latitude | Seaglider latitude | degrees_north | double | N/A | -90 to 90 | 1 |
| longitude | Seaglider longitude | degrees_east | double | N/A | -180 to 180 | 1 |
| mean_latitude | Mean latitude of the dive | degrees_north | double | N/A | 9.6866901703147 to 10.462461869455 | 1 |
| mean_longitude | Mean longitude of the dive | degrees_east | double | N/A | -126.02175886991 to -124.67522620669 | 1 |
| mean_time | Mean time of the dive | days since 1950-01-01T00:00:00 | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| rain_rate | The fillvalue of -9999 indicates unreliable data. | mm/hr | float | -9999 | 0 to 300 | 1 |
| salinity | Salinity corrected for thermal-inertia effects (PSU) | 1e-3 | double | N/A | 31.772024556649 to 36.973231207419 | 1 |
| start_latitude | Starting latitude of the dive | degrees_north | double | N/A | 9.66853 to 10.45439 | 1 |
| start_longitude | Starting longitude of the dive | degrees_east | double | N/A | -126.01035166667 to -124.65545166667 | 1 |
| start_time | Starting time of the dive | days since 1950-01-01T00:00:00 | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| temperature | Temperature (in situ) corrected for thermistor first-order lag | degrees_C | double | N/A | 3.7036438132799 to 29.184645931459 | 1 |
| time | time of measurement | days since 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| wind_speed | wind speed | m/s | double | -9999 | 0 to 30 | 1 |