ru29-20260623T2102-delayed

The Challenger Glider Mission is inspired by the first global scientific ocean survey conducted by the HMS Challenger from 1872 to 1876. The goals of the mission are to establish a collaborative international network of autonomous underwater glider ports, to assess the predictive skill of global ocean models while contributing real-time profile data for assimilation into ocean forecast models by operational centers worldwide, and to crowdsource student-based ocean research and discovery. This glider is providing subsurface velocity, dissolved oxygen, temperature, conductivity, salinity, and density profile observations. The RU29 planned mission extends east from Barbados to serve as a data scout for thermohaline staircase variability for the FKt260806/SPICE cruise aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s R/V Falkor (too). Real-time datasets will include CTD data provided to the IOOS Glider DAC and GTS to support ocean and atmospheric weather forecasting. Delayed mode dataset.