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1 digital object.

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Amador, Andre; Merrifield, Sophia T.; Terrill, Eric J. (2022). Atmospheric and oceanographic measurements from a Wave Glider autonomous surface vehicle collected off the coast of Southern California from May 2020 to December 2021. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. https://doi.org/10.6075/J0P26Z97

Description

This collection contains meteorology, wave, and current data from Wave Glider Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASVs) gathered in a series of field deployments conducted off the coast of Southern California from May 2020 to December 2021. Our approach involved operations in close proximity to fixed National Data Buoy Center (NDBC), Coastal Data Information Program (CDIP), and Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) moored buoy assets, which provided ground-truth data to characterize the quality of the Wave Glider measurements over a range of field conditions. Please refer to Amador et al., 2022 (in review) for more information on processing and motion compensation routines.

Date Collected

• 2020-05 to 2021-12

Date Issued

• 2022

Author

• Amador, Andre

Co Principal Investigators

• Merrifield, Sophia T.
• Terrill, Eric J.

Technical Details

Meteorological measurements of wind speed and direction, atmospheric pressure, and air temperature were collected using the Coastal Observing Research and Development Center (CORDC)-fabricated environmental sensing suite, which featured a Vaisala WXT520 weather sensor mounted on a 1.2 m vertical mast on the Wave Glider float. Wave spectra and bulk wave parameters were computed from GPS Doppler velocity signals. Water velocity data were collected with a downward looking 300 kHz Teledyne RDI Workhorse Monitor ADCP, installed in the aft payload bay of the Wave Glider float.

Funding

This work was funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency via award OMAO-HQ-2020-0005-0 and by the Office of Naval Research via awards N00014-21-1-2824 and N00014-21-1-4014.

Topics

• Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP)
• Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASV)
• Currents
• Meteorological measurements
• Surface waves
• Wave glider

Formats

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• text

Language

• English

Identifier

Identifier: Andre Amador: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0476-4019

Identifier: Eric J. Terrill: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1807-8351

Identifier: Sophia T. Merrifield: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4152-7285

Related Resources

Related data

• Del Mar mooring ADCP data from 06/04/2021 - 05/18/2022 (control dataset for current measurements): https://mooring.ucsd.edu/delmar1/delmar1_17/nc/
• Del Mar mooring ADCP data from 07/25/2020 - 05/05/2021 (control dataset for current measurements): https://mooring.ucsd.edu/delmar1/delmar1_16/nc/
• National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) Tanner Bank buoy data (control dataset for meteorological measurements): https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/download_data.php?filename=46047h2020.txt.gz&dir=data/historical/stdmet/
• Reference data for wave evaluation dataset 045a,b. Coastal Data Information Program (CDIP) buoy data: https://thredds.cdip.ucsd.edu/thredds/catalog/cdip/archive/045p1/catalog.html?dataset=CDIP_Archive/045p1/045p1_d26.nc
• Reference data for wave evaluation dataset 100a,b. Coastal Data Information Program (CDIP) buoy data: https://thredds.cdip.ucsd.edu/thredds/catalog/cdip/archive/100p1/catalog.html?dataset=CDIP_Archive/100p1/100p1_d16.nc
• Reference data for wave evaluation dataset 67. Coastal Data Information Program (CDIP) buoy data: https://thredds.cdip.ucsd.edu/thredds/catalog/cdip/archive/067p1/catalog.html?dataset=CDIP_Archive/067p1/067p1_d27.nc

Reference

• Large, W. G., & Pond, S. (1981). Open Ocean Momentum Flux Measurements in Moderate to Strong Winds, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 11(3), 324-336. Retrieved Oct 14, 2022, from https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0485(1981)011<0324:OOMFMI>2.0.CO;2

Other resource

• Teledyne RD Instruments. (2010). ADCP Coordinate Transformation. Teledyne RD Instruments. http://www.teledynemarine.com/rdi/support
• Teledyne RD Instruments. (2021). 300 kHz Teledyne RDI Workhorse Monitor ADCP. Teledyne RD Instruments. http://www.teledynemarine.com/rdi/support