Dataset: 2018 Wire Flyer GPS data

Name: GPS data from 8 Wire Flyer deployments conducted on R/V Atlantis cruise AT42-03 in the Costa Rica Margin from October to November 2018
Published: 2022-08-23
Keywords: oceans

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Spatial Extent: N:9.089473 E:-84.175307 S:8.538579 W:-85.144747

Temporal Extent: 2018-10-19 - 2018-11-03

Project:

Collaborative research: Quantifying the biological, chemical, and physical linkages between chemosynthetic communities and the surrounding deep sea (Costa Rica Seeps)

Principal Investigator:

Christopher Neil Roman (University of Rhode Island, URI)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Shannon Rauch (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

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2022-08-23

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GPS data from 8 Wire Flyer deployments conducted on R/V Atlantis cruise AT42-03 in the Costa Rica Margin from October to November 2018

Abstract:

This dataset includes the GPS data from 8 Wire Flyer deployments conducted on R/V Atlantis cruise AT42-03 in the Costa Rica Margin from October to November 2018.

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Methods & Sampling

Data were collected on R/V Atlantis cruise AT42-03 in the Costa Rica Margin from October to November 2018. The GPS data are from the ship's data stream. The winch payout was logged from the winch LCI unit. The Wire Flyer position was calculated using measurements of the clump weight depth and the wire payout. The layback distance is the Flyer's distance behind the ship. Refer to the Supplemental Files for more information on the Wire Flyer.

Data Processing Description

BCO-DMO Processing:
- concatenated data from 8 separate files into one dataset;
- created new column "deployment_id" (based on original file name);
- converted date/time field to ISO8601 format.

Supplemental Files

File
AT42-03 Wire Flyer Summary Plots filename: summary_plots.zip (ZIP Archive (ZIP), 8.85 MB) MD5:eb9054e1925496bf6f0522326dc96fa5 Summary plots of data from 8 Wire Flyer deployments conducted on R/V Atlantis cruise AT42-05. There is one PDF for each deployment. The file naming convention is YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS, set at the start of the deployment, e.g. 20170125_151748. The times are all in GMT, not local time.
Wire Flyer Launch and Recover Document filename: flyer_launch_and_recover_document.pdf (Portable Document Format (.pdf), 7.26 MB) MD5:f9274b8c8b003b9a39083191e4f2c76b Document describing the Wire Flyer launch and recovery procedures.
Wire Flyer Overview 2019 filename: Wire_flyer_overview_2019.pdf (Portable Document Format (.pdf), 15.84 MB) MD5:7c3c14f839142f115c5aa467894395d7 Slides from a presentation by Christopher Roman titled "The Wire Flyer vehicle system and high resolution hydrographic sections".

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1634559

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
AT42-03		2018-10-17	R/V Atlantis	Erik E. Cordes (Chief Scientist)	data info

Instruments

Wire Flyer Towed Profiling System

Supplied Name: Wire Flyer

Supplied Description:

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Wire Flyer Towed Profiling System

Acronym: Wire Flyer

Generic Description:

Description from Roman et al. (2019):
The Wire Flyer towed vehicle is a platform able to collect high-resolution water column sections. The vehicle is motivated by a desire to effectively capture spatial structures at the submesoscale. The Wire Flyer profiles up and down along a ship-towed cable autonomously using controllable wings for propulsion. At ship speeds between 2 and 5 kt (1.02–2.55 m s−1), the vehicle is able to profile over prescribed depth bands down to 1000 m. The vehicle carries sensors for conductivity, temperature, depth, oxygen, turbidity, chlorophyll, pH, and oxidation reduction potential. During normal operations, the vehicle is typically commanded to cover vertical regions between 300 and 400 m in height with profiles that repeat at kilometer spacing. The vertical profiling speed can be user-specified up to 150 m min−1. During operations, an acoustic modem is used to communicate with the vehicle to provide status information, data samples, and the ability to modify the sampling pattern.

Detailed information can be found in the following publication:
Roman, C., Ullman, D. S., Hebert, D., & Licht, S. (2019). The Wire Flyer Towed Profiling System. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 36(2), 161–182. doi:10.1175/jtech-d-17-0180.1

Parameters

Date and time formats are described in python strftime() syntax.

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
deployment_id	identifier for the deployment; indicates the start date and time of deployment in format: YYYYMMDD_hhmmss (time zone is GMT)	unitless	deployno
layback	distance to the Wire Flyer behind the ship	meters (m)	xpos
flyer_lat	latitude of the towed vehicle, accounting for the distance behind the ship	degrees North	lat
flyer_lon	longitude of the towed vehicle, accounting for the distance behind the ship	degrees East	lon
distance	cumulative distance for the Wire Flyer along the track	meters (m)	len_track
ship_distance	cumulative distance of the ship along the track	meters (m)	len_track
timestamp	time stamp in microunix seconds	microunix seconds	time
datestring	date-time string (GMT) in format where xxx represent milliseconds: YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss.xxx	unitless	DateTime
ISO_DateTime_UTC	date-time string converted to ISO8601 format: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.xxxxxxZ. Note that data are accurate to milliseconds (not microseconds) Format: %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fZ	unitless	ISO_DateTime_UTC
lat	latitude of the ship	degrees North	lat
lon	longitude of the ship	degrees East	lon
cmg	compass heading	degrees	cmg
sog	speed over ground	knots	sog

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Dataset: 2018 Wire Flyer GPS data