Glider

MARCOOS Data

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Glider Data Archive

MARCOOS currently runs glider missions along 2 transect lines, one from Cape Cod to New Jersey, and another from New Jersey to North Carolina. Researchers interested in the raw CTD data can access them here.

Please pick data you want to browse:

Start Date End Date North/South Lane Data Images
09/25/07 10/17/07 North click here click here
10/05/07 10/30/07 South click here click here
11/28/07 12/20/07 North click here click here

* Notes:
- All of this CTD data is RAW and UNCORRECTED.
- Each mission archive consists of a tar file that contains numerous .dat files of individual CTD profiles.
- Each .dat file contains a single profile with a five line header describing the profile and the columns.
- The first header line contains the glider name, timestamp, latitude, longitude, number of records in the profile, and a U/D for upcast/downcast. *
- The data colums are depth, temperature, salnity and conductivity (see the data files for more information).
- Cast files are designed to be easily loaded into Matlab.

* For example:
% ru05,20071017T152917,39.4442,-74.2079,35,U
Where...
ru05: glider name
20071017T152917: timestamp (yyyymmddThhmmss)
39.4442: latitude
-74.2079: longitude
35: number of records
U: upcast

Surface Drifters - click to see

- The following is position data for a series of surface drifters deployed in partnership with the U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center.  The drifters are drogued to 1 meter depth and report their GPS position via ARGOS every 15 minutes. 
The following data are provided in both matlab and ASCII formats.

 

Stevens New Jersey Coastal Monitoring Network (NJ-CMN) - click to visit

- This is the website of the Stevens Coastal Monitoring Network. Stevens Institute of Technology established the New Jersey Coastal Monitoring Network (CMN) in 1998. This system provides real-time observations and archived records of shallow water (5m) wave characteristics, water temperature, water level and meteorological conditions (wind speed and direction, temperature, barometric pressure), as well as digital images of the beach and nearshore ocean, at locations that span the State's ocean shoreline. The system is designed to provide real-time information to local, State, and Federal emergency management personnel, and long-term records of wave, weather conditions and shoreline response for use by the coastal scientific community.

 

Stevens New York Harbor and NJ Coast Present Conditions - click to visit

- Part of the Stevens NYHOPS service, this website allows access to, and visualization of, the present wind, water temperature, salinity, and current conditions within New York Harbor and along the Atlantic Ocean shoreline of New Jersey. It combines (assimilates) hydrodynamic models and real- time data from deployed gages and High-Frequency Radar to best represent present meteorological and ocean-surface conditions in these areas.

 

Rutgers Coastal Ocean Modeling and Prediction group OPeNDAP server - click to visit

- The Rutgers Coastal Ocean Modeling and Prediction group maintain an OPeNDAP server to provide access to MARCOOS related data sets. Datasets currently available are:

  • Meteorology - click to visit - MARCOOS region subsets of marine boundary layer forecast conditions from the NCEP NAM (North American Mesoscale) model. The data subsets are extracted from NOAA NOMADS services and include all data required to drive an ocean forecast model by air-sea flux bulk formulae (sea level pressure, temperature, humidity, 10-m wind velocity, downward and net longwave radiation, net shortwave radiation, and precipitation). The rolling archives of 1-hourly and 3-hourly interval data are updated daily. On each update, the previous 24-hour forecast
    for the NAM forecast cycle starting 00Z is retained, and the latest forecast is appended (out to 3.5 days for the 3-hourly archive, and 1.5 days for the 1-hourly archive).
  • CODAR - click to visit - velocity totals computed from Rutgers sites. The subheading 'Macoora 8km Totals' are all data since 13 Dec 2006 to present on an 8 km grid spanning the MARCOOS region. This archive is updated hourly directly from the standard COOLroom hourly real-time product.
  • ROMS ESPRESSO simulation - click to visit - Output from the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) ESPRESSO model which covers the Mid-Atlantic Bight from the center of Cape Cod southward to Cape Hatters, from the coast to beyond 3000 m isobath.

 

AVHRR Sea Surface Temperature - click to visit

- AVHRR SST from all individual passes of the NOAA satellites from January 2000 to December 2007 are available on an equal-angle, approximately 1 km resolution grid for the region 35N to 46N, 77W to 63W.  The data set includes a cloud_mask flag derived from several differing criteria. This is documented in the attributes of the data set. The archive presently stands at 22903 images. The de-clouded imagery is available in NetCDF format.

- Three and eight day rolling averages of the AVHRR SST data are also available in .jpg format:

Declouded ocean color data - click to visit NEW!

NOAA Ship Tracking System - click to visit

- NOAA's Ship Tracker Web Site shows information about the location, present and past, of NOAA's ships.

 

Rutgers Coastal Ocean Observation Lab Links Collection - click to visit

- Ocean and Weather Forecasts, Universities and Goverment Organizations.