Real-time oceanography captured by autonomous sailbuoy in Lofoten/Vesterålen 2018

<p>Real-time oceanography from sailbuoy <a href="http://sailbuoy.no/13-news/74-introducing-the-sb-echo">Echo</a>&#39;s long-endurance data acquisition campaign for the&nbsp;<a href="https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/en/project/FORISS/269188">Glider project</a>.</p> <p>The study area ranged from 66&ndash;71N and 8&ndash;19E, focusing on the coastal shelf area surrounding the Lofoten and Vester&aring;len islands,&nbsp;Norway, from March to August 2018.</p> <p>The dataset contains 4684 oceanography data points, and ~10000 auxiliary data points, spread over a period of 154 days.</p> <p><strong>Oceanography variables</strong></p> <p>GPS</p> <ul> <li><code>Time</code> UTC</li> <li><code>Lat</code> latitude WGS84</li> <li><code>Long</code> longitude WGS84</li> </ul> <p>Conductivity and temperature, from <a href="https://nbosi.com">NBOSI</a> CT sensors</p> <ul> <li><code>CTTemp</code> Sea surface temperature <code>&deg;C</code></li> <li><code>CTCond</code> Sea water conductivity <code>mS/cm</code></li> </ul> <p>From <a href="https://www.aanderaa.com/">Aanderaa</a> Oxygen Optode 4831</p> <ul> <li><code>O2Con</code> Oxygen O₂ concentration <code>&micro;M</code></li> <li><code>O2Air</code> Oxygen O₂ air saturation <code>%</code></li> <li><code>O2Temp</code> Oxygen O₂ water temperature <code>&deg;C</code></li> </ul> <p>The data is published as 2 TSV files from iridium real-time messages that were received, parsed, and exported from <a href="https://iridium2.azurewebsites.net/">Offshore Sensing&#39;s portal</a>.</p> <p>For more information on the <a href="https://www.akvaplan.niva.no/">Akvaplan-niva</a>-led Glider project, including its partners, technology, and results, see Camus et al.:<br> <a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/s21206752">Autonomous Surface and Underwater Vehicles as Effective Ecosystem Monitoring and Research Platforms in the Arctic&mdash;The Glider Project</a>. Sensors 2021, 21, 6752. <a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/s21206752">https://doi.org/10.3390/s21206752</a></p> <p>In 2022, Akvaplan-niva starts&nbsp;publishing the complete set of data from Glider (phase I) on their research archive on&nbsp;<a href="https://zenodo.org/communities/akvaplan-niva">Zenodo</a>.</p>