S-MODE L2 Position Data from Surface Drifters Version 1

Description

This dataset contains in-situ position data from surface drifters from the Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment (S-MODE) conducted approximately 300 km offshore of San Francisco during a pilot campaign over two weeks in October 2021, and two intensive operating periods (IOPs) in Fall 2022 and Spring 2023. S-MODE aims to understand how ocean dynamics acting on short spatial scales influence the vertical exchange of physical and biological variables in the ocean. Drifting buoys were deployed from the research vessels and configured to nominally report positions every five minutes. Drifter position as a function of time is used by S-MODE to measure the average horizontal velocity of currents in the upper 60 cm of the ocean. Tracking and telemetry of the drifters is done by Pacific Gyre, Inc. The data are available in netCDF format with a dimension of time.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Project Website for S-MODE hosted by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) http://smode.whoi.edu/
22 Thumbnail https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/Podaac/thumbnails/SMODE_LX_DRIFTER_POSITIONS_V1.jpg
21 Data Use and Citation Policy https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/CitingPODAAC
21 S-MODE GitHub Organization https://github.com/NASA-SMODE
21 Browse and download granules over HTTPS using the virtual directories https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/virtual-directory/collections/C2110184936-POCLOUD
21 Browse granule search results in Earthdata Search https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C2110184936-POCLOUD
21 2022 S-MODE Open Data Workshop Information https://espo.nasa.gov/s-mode/content/S-MODE_2022_Open_Data_Workshop
21 2022 S-MODE Open Data Workshop Presentations and Recordings https://espo.nasa.gov/s-mode/content/S-MODE_2022_ODW_Recording_and_Presentations
33 S-MODE Pilot Campaign Field Report https://espo.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/documents/S-MODE_Pilot-Campaign_Field-Report.pdf
21 Project Landing Page for S-MODE on the PO.DAAC Website http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/s-mode
21 2022 S-MODE Open Data Workshop Code and Tutorials https://github.com/podaac/2022-SMODE-Open-Data-Workshop
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FSMODE-DRIFT
21 Generic data readers https://github.com/podaac/data-readers

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  • oceans
  • ocean-circulation
  • earth-science

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