N: 13.97 S: 5.09 E: -123.51 W: -126.51
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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. An underway-CTD (uCTD) is a towed profiling CTD instrument providing salinity and temperature observations from the surface to 500m while underway at up to 12 kts. A total of 262 and 501 uCTD casts were performed during the first and second Revelle cruises respectively. uCTD data files (1 per cruise) are in netCDF format and each contain the observational data for multiple deployments, binned in 6 or 8m depth intervals.
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| Name Sort descending | Description | Units | Data Type | Fill Value | Valid Range | Scale Factor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| depth | Depth of uCTD | m | double | N/A | 6 to 546 | 1 |
| latitude | Latitude of uCTD | degrees_north | double | N/A | 5.0926446829003 to 13.970682914512 | 1 |
| longitude | Longitude of uCTD | degrees_east | double | N/A | 234.43309847439 to 235.95631084056 | 1 |
| potential_temperature | Potential Temperature of uCTD measurement | degrees_C | double | N/A | 7.0286082732553 to 28.449079565259 | 1 |
| pressure | Pressure of uCTD measurement | dbar | double | N/A | 6.01575 to 550.85071875 | 1 |
| salinity | Salinity of uCTD measurement | 1 | double | N/A | 32.780846366172 to 37.801936240894 | 1 |
| sea_water_density | Sea Water Density of uCTD measurement | kg / m^3 | double | N/A | 20.859928049706 to 29.567069158881 | 1 |
| serial_number | Serial Number of uCTD | N/A | double | N/A | 272 to 296 | 1 |
| sigma_theta | Sea Water Sigma Theta of uCTD measurement | kg / m^3 | double | N/A | 20.831372520675 to 27.066563837912 | 1 |
| speed_of_sound_in_sea_water | Speed of Sound in Sea Water of uCTD measurement | m / s | double | N/A | 1487.3286525801 to 1542.5049480295 | 1 |
| temperature | Temperature of uCTD measurement | degrees_C | double | N/A | 7.0806202583511 to 28.452041898547 | 1 |
| time | Time of uCTD | days since 1950-01-01T00:00:00 | double | N/A | N/A | 1 |
| u | Velocities come from ADCP | m / s | double | N/A | -3.8226622217302 to 3.3155250767394 | 1 |
| v | Velocities come from ADCP | m / s | double | N/A | -2.9069375266531 to 4.1146418387647 | 1 |