Gulf Stream Climatology

Gulf Stream mean and annual cycle from Spray underwater glider measurements

Description

Three-dimensional estimates of the time-mean and annual cycle of temperature, salinity, density, and velocity derived from Spray glider observations in and near the Gulf Stream along the US East Coast.

Date Range

2015-07-16 to 2023-05-30.

Cite this Dataset

Todd, R. E. & Ren, A. S. (2023), Gulf Stream mean and annual cycle from Spray underwater glider measurements [Data set]. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Instrument Development Group, https://doi.org/10.21238/S8TC9W.

Associated Publications

Todd, R. E., A.S. Ren (2023), Warming and lateral shift of the Gulf Stream from in situ observations since 2001. Nature Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01835-w.

Creators

• Robert E. Todd, ORCID=0000-0002-6854-7729, [Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution]
• Alice S. Ren, ORCID=0000-0002-2059-4198, [Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution]

Source Data

The underlying observations for this data product are from the Gliders in the Gulf Stream project and the PEACH project.

• Todd, R., & Owens, B. (2016). Gliders in the Gulf Stream [Data set]. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Instrument Development Group. https://doi.org/10.21238/S8SPRAY2675
• Spray glider observations in support of PEACH [Data set]. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Instrument Development Group. https://doi.org/10.21238/S8SPRAY0880

Year of Dataset Publication

2023

Funding

Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing (GOMO) Program, the Office of Naval Research, Eastman Chemical Company, and Woods Hole Oceanographc Institution.

Contact

For questions and inquiries about this dataset contact the lead creator Robert Todd at rtodd@whoi.edu. For data access inquiries please contact Jenn Sevadjian the data distributor at jpsevadjian@ucsd.edu.