N: 12.1 S: 7.4 E: -48.6 W: -59.4
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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.
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Variables
The table below lists the variables contained within a single granule for this dataset. Variables often contain observed or derived geophysical measurements collected from a variety of sources, including remote sensing instruments on satellite and airborne platforms, field campaigns, in situ measurements, and model outputs. The terms variable, parameter, scientific data set, layer, and band have been used across NASA’s Earth science disciplines; however, variable is the designated nomenclature in NASA’s Common Metadata Repository (CMR). Variable metadata attributes such as Name, Description, Units, Data Type, Fill Value, Valid Range, and Scale Factor allow users to efficiently process and analyze the data. The full range of attributes may not be applicable to all variables. Additional information on variable attributes is typically available in the data, user guide, and/or other product documentation.
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| Name Sort descending | Description | Units | Data Type | Fill Value | Valid Range | Scale Factor | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WING_PITCH_FILTERED_MEAN | Wing pitch one minute mean | degree | double | N/A | N/A | 1 | N/A |
| WING_PITCH_FILTERED_PEAK | Wing pitch one minute peak | degree | double | N/A | N/A | 1 | N/A |
| WING_PITCH_FILTERED_STDDEV | Wing pitch one minute stddev | degree | double | N/A | N/A | 1 | N/A |
| WING_ROLL_FILTERED_MEAN | Wing roll one minute mean | degree | double | N/A | N/A | 1 | N/A |
| WING_ROLL_FILTERED_PEAK | Wing roll one minute peak | degree | double | N/A | N/A | 1 | N/A |
| WING_ROLL_FILTERED_STDDEV | Wing roll one minute stddev | degree | double | N/A | N/A | 1 | N/A |
| WWND_MEAN | Downward wind speed | m s-1 | double | N/A | N/A | 1 | N/A |
| WWND_STDDEV | Downward wind speed SD | m s-1 | double | N/A | N/A | 1 | N/A |