S-MODE Shipboard uCTD and EcoCTD Measurements Version 1

Description

This dataset contains shipboard Underway conductivity, temperature, and depth (UCDT) measurements taken during the Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment (S-MODE) field campaign. The experiment was conducted approximately 300 km offshore of San Francisco, during a pilot campaign that spanned two weeks in October 2021, and two intensive operating periods 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. The Underway CTD system contains a standard UCDT probe measuring conductivity, temperature, and pressure, as well as an augmented EcoCDT probe that concurrently measures both hydrographic and bio-optical data including conductivity, temperature, pressure, dissolved oxygen concentration, chlorophyll-fluorescence, and particulate backscatter at two different wavelengths. The level 2 data herein combines measurements from both the UCDT and EcoCDT into a single dataset, where for each variable, all profiles are binned onto a 5m vertical grid and merged into a 2-D matrix. Additional computed variables include backscatter baseline signal and backscatter spike signal. Data are available in netCDF format.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 2022 S-MODE Open Data Workshop Information https://espo.nasa.gov/s-mode/content/S-MODE_2022_Open_Data_Workshop
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FSMODE-RVECT
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_L2_SHIPBOARD_UCTD_ECOCTD_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/C2110184931-POCLOUD
21 Browse granule search results in Earthdata Search https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C2110184931-POCLOUD
21 Generic data readers https://github.com/podaac/data-readers
21 2022 S-MODE Open Data Workshop Presentations and Recordings https://espo.nasa.gov/s-mode/content/S-MODE_2022_ODW_Recording_and_Presentations
21 2022 S-MODE Open Data Workshop Code and Tutorials https://github.com/podaac/2022-SMODE-Open-Data-Workshop
33 S-MODE Pilot Campaign Field Report https://espo.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/documents/S-MODE_Pilot-Campaign_Field-Report.pdf
33 SMODE Bio-optical Data (V1) Report for Pilot Field Campaign https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/s-mode/docs/S-MODE_PILOT_2021_BIO_OPTICS_DATA_REPORT_V1.pdf
21 Project Landing Page for S-MODE on the PO.DAAC Website http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/s-mode
33 SMODE Bio-optical Data (V2) Report for IOP-1 https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/s-mode/docs/S-MODE_IOP1_2022_BIO_OPTICS_DATA_REPORT.pdf

Tags

  • salinity-density
  • oceans
  • ocean-temperature
  • ocean-optics
  • ocean-chemistry
  • earth-science

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