Saildrone field campaign surface and ADCP measurements for the Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign (ATOMIC) project
| DOI | 10.5067/SDRON-ATOM0 |
| Short Name | SAILDRONE_ATOMIC |
| Description | 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. |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Dataset Type | COMPLETE |
| Measurement | OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > FLUORESCENCE OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION > OCEAN CURRENTS OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > CONDUCTIVITY OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > OXYGEN |
| Processing Level | 2 |
| Coverage | Region: Carribean North Bounding Coordinate: 12.1 degrees South Bounding Coordinate: 7.4 degrees West Bounding Coordinate: -59.4 degrees East Bounding Coordinate: -48.6 degrees Time Span: 2020-Jan-17 to 2020-Mar-02 Granule Time Span: 2020-Jan-17 to 2020-Mar-02 |
| Resolution | Spatial Resolution: |
| Swath Width | 0.001 km |
| Platform/Sensor | Saildrone / Platform Name: Saildrone Unmanned Surface Vehicle (Saildrone) Orbit Period: 0.0 minutes Inclination Angle: 0.0 degrees PYROMETERS SENSOR Name: Heitronics Wing IR Pyrometer (PYROMETERS) Swath Width: 0.001 kilometers Description: Spacecraft angular distance from orbital plane relative to the Equator. Saildrone / Platform Name: Saildrone Unmanned Surface Vehicle (Saildrone) Orbit Period: 0.0 minutes Inclination Angle: 0.0 degrees ADCP SENSOR Name: Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) Swath Width: 0.001 kilometers Description: Spacecraft angular distance from orbital plane relative to the Equator. Saildrone / Platform Name: Saildrone Unmanned Surface Vehicle (Saildrone) Orbit Period: 0.0 minutes Inclination Angle: 0.0 degrees CTD SENSOR Name: Conductivity, Temperature, Depth (CTD) Swath Width: 0.001 kilometers Description: Spacecraft angular distance from orbital plane relative to the Equator. Saildrone / Platform Name: Saildrone Unmanned Surface Vehicle (Saildrone) Orbit Period: 0.0 minutes Inclination Angle: 0.0 degrees ANEMOMETERS SENSOR Name: Aanderaa Dissolved Oxygen (710) Sensor 4831 (ANEMOMETERS) Swath Width: 0.001 kilometers Description: Spacecraft angular distance from orbital plane relative to the Equator. Saildrone / Platform Name: Saildrone Unmanned Surface Vehicle (Saildrone) Orbit Period: 0.0 minutes Inclination Angle: 0.0 degrees FLUOROMETERS SENSOR Name: Fluorometer (FLUOROMETERS) Swath Width: 0.001 kilometers Description: Spacecraft angular distance from orbital plane relative to the Equator. |
| Project | Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign (ATOMIC) |
| Data Provider | Publisher: Saildrone Inc Creator: Saildrone Release Place: Saildrone Inc. 1050 W Tower Ave, Alameda, CA 94501 Release Date: 2020-Jul-30 Resource: http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/saildrone |
| Keyword(s) | ADCP, CTD, fluorometer, anemometer, surface, trajectory, saildrone, chlorophyll-a, oxygen concentration, wind speed, wind direction, Salinity, Conductivity, Temperature, ATOMIC, NASA, Carribean, insitu |
Questions related to this dataset? Contact podaac@podaac.jpl.nasa.gov
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| PO.DAAC DRIVE | https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/allData/insitu/L2/saildrone/Atomic PO.DAAC Drive |
| OPENDAP DATA | https://podaac-opendap.jpl.nasa.gov/opendap/allData/insitu/L2/saildrone/Atomic/ The OPeNDAP base directory location for the collection. |
| Format (Compression) | NETCDF |
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| Citation | Saildrone. 2020. Saildrone Arctic ATOMIC Field Campaign Products. Ver. 1.0. PO.DAAC, CA, USA. Dataset accessed [YYYY-MM-DD] at https://doi.org/10.5067/SDRON-ATOM0
For more information see Data Citations and Acknowledgments.
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| Journal Reference | Gentemann, C.L., J.P. Scott, P.L.F. Mazzini, C. Pianca, S. Akella, P.J Minnett, P. Cornillon, B. Fox-Kemper, I. Cetinic, T.M. Chin, J. Gomez-Valdes J. Vazquez-Cuervo, V.M. Tsontos, L. Yu, R. Jenkins, S. De Halleux, D. Peacock; N. Cohen. Saildrone: Adaptively Sampling the Marine Environment. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. (2020) 101 (6): E744E762. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0015.1 | |||||||