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Extent

1 digital object.

Cite This Work

Soares, Saulo M.; Chereskin, Teresa K.; Gille, Sarah T. (2022). Underway Shipboard Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (SADCP) Data Archive. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. https://doi.org/10.6075/J0FJ2GZ3

Description

Shipboard acoustic Doppler current profilers (SADCPs) measure the horizontal components of the ocean current vector. This collection assembles post-processed and publicly available SADCP data collected by underway research ships on multiple oceanographic cruises into an organized, quality-controlled, metadata rich and searchable database of ocean current transects (slices of the upper ocean between 2 points on the Earth). The collection consists of regional NetCDF files where data are organized by a unique transect number. The data and file can be used in conjunction with the pysadcp software available at https://github.com/ocesaulo/pysadcp.

Date Collected

• 1990 to 2020

Date Issued

• 2022

Creator

• Soares, Saulo M.

Principal Investigator

• Gille, Sarah T.

Co Principal Investigator

• Chereskin, Teresa K.

Funding

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) through the Ocean Surface Topography Science Team (OSTST) award NNX16AH67G

Geographic

• Global

Topics

• Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP)
• Currents
• Horizontal velocity
• Shipboard
• Shipboard Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (SADCP)
• Transects
• Transits
• Tropics
• Underway

Formats

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• data
• text

Language

• English

Identifier

Identifier: Sarah T. Gille: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9144-4368

Identifier: Saulo M. Soares: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0534-1659

Identifier: Teresa K. Chereskin: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1214-0978

Doi: https://doi.org/10.6075/J0FJ2GZ3

Related Resource

Software

• GitHub repository - Tools to organize, handle and analyze shipboard ADCP data sets: https://github.com/ocesaulo/pysadcp