Datasetsilbo-20160413T1534
Glidersilbo
StatusCompleted
SummaryThe Silbo Challenger mission is a partnership between industry and academia which will exercise a number of new Slocum glider
features and long term deployment stratgies including shoreside piloting tools, glider firmware, battery design, thruster
design, hull design and low cost deployment and recovery in support of open ocean deployments. Temperature and salinity
profiles will also be submitted to the IOOS National Data Assembly Center which will transmit the profiles to the Global
Telecommunication System for assimiliation into ocean forecasting models
WMO ID4801937
AttributionThis deployment supported by funding from a variety of organizations enabling operation of RU-COOL.
Time Coverage Start2016-04-13 16:37:29 UTC
Time Coverage End2017-02-23 03:00:12 UTC
Registered2016-05-18
Deployed2016-04-13
OperatorTeledyne Webb Research Corporation
InstitutionTeledyne Webb Research Corporation
Data Providerrutgers
# Profiles621
Days Deployed316
BBox North51.105
BBox South39.102
BBox East-69.71
BBox West-12.158