Ocean research enabled by underwater gliders

DL Rudnick - Annual review of marine science, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Underwater gliders are autonomous underwater vehicles that profile vertically by changing
their buoyancy and use wings to move horizontally. Gliders are useful for sustained …

OceanGliders: a component of the integrated GOOS

P Testor, B De Young, DL Rudnick, S Glenn… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The OceanGliders program started in 2016 to support active coordination and enhancement
of global glider activity. OceanGliders contributes to the international efforts of the Global …

[HTML][HTML] Submesoscale instability and generation of mesoscale anticyclones near a separation of the California Undercurrent

MJ Molemaker, JC McWilliams… - Journal of Physical …, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
Submesoscale Instability and Generation of Mesoscale Anticyclones near a Separation of the
California Undercurrent in: Journal of Physical Oceanography Volume 45 Issue 3 (2015) Jump …

The 2014–2015 warming anomaly in the Southern California Current System observed by underwater gliders

KD Zaba, DL Rudnick - Geophysical Research Letters, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Large‐scale patterns of positive temperature anomalies persisted throughout the surface
waters of the North Pacific Ocean during 2014–2015. In the Southern California Current …

Seasonality of the transitional region of the California Current System off Baja California

R Durazo - Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrographic data collected over the period 1997–2013 are analyzed to investigate the
seasonality of hydrographic features and associated geostrophic flows off the Baja …

Regional ocean data assimilation

CA Edwards, AM Moore, I Hoteit… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
This article reviews the past 15 years of developments in regional ocean data assimilation. A
variety of scientific, management, and safety-related objectives motivate marine scientists to …

State of the California Current 2015-16: comparisons with the 1997-98 El Niño

S Mcclatchie, R Goericke, A Leising, TD Auth… - 2016 - escholarship.org
Warm conditions in the North Pacific in 2014-15 were a result of the continuation of the North
Pacific marine heat wave, a large area of exceptionally high SST anomalies that originated …

A climatology of the California Current System from a network of underwater gliders

DL Rudnick, KD Zaba, RE Todd, RE Davis - Progress in Oceanography, 2017 - Elsevier
Autonomous underwater gliders offer the possibility of sustained observation of the coastal
ocean. Since 2006 Spray underwater gliders in the California Underwater Glider Network …

An historical analysis of the California Current circulation using ROMS 4D-Var: System configuration and diagnostics

E Neveu, AM Moore, CA Edwards, J Fiechter, P Drake… - Ocean Modelling, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) 4-dimensional variational (4D-Var)
data assimilation tool has been used to compute two sequences of circulation analyses for …

On sampling the ocean using underwater gliders

DL Rudnick, ST Cole - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The sampling characteristics of an underwater glider are addressed through comparison
with contemporaneous measurements from a ship survey using a towed vehicle. The …