Gliders - Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System
Original (non-English) name
Acronym
Gliders - SCCOOS
Citation
Abstract
The California Underwater Glider Network (CUGN) uses Spray underwater gliders making repeated dives from the surface to 500 m and back, repeating the cycle every 3 hours, and traveling 3 km in the horizontal during that time. The CUGN includes gliders on three of the traditional cross-shore surveying lines: off Monterey Bay, Point Conception, and Dana Point and one alongshore line. The glider missions typically last about 100 days, and cover over 2000 km, thus providing 4-6 sections on lines extending 300-500 km offshore. The first operations began in 2005, with continuous coverage starting in 2006. To date, the CUGN has covered 300,000 km in 37 glider-years, while producing 125,000 profiles of data.