CARICOOS, with support from NOAA-Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), successfully deployed five (5) underwater gliders in mid-June 2021, four owned by NOAA-AOML and one by CARICOOS. Of those, three were deployed in the Caribbean Sea and two in the Atlantic Ocean. These underwater gliders will continually gather temperature and salinity profiles up to 1000 meters deep which will be utilized for improving hurricane intensity forecasts. These gliders are part of a larger fleet deployed throughout the western Atlantic Ocean with partners from the US NAVY, OCOVI, MARACOOS, SECOORA, GCOOS and Rutgers University.
To see the current location of the gliders and the data being collected, visit:
IOOS Underwater Glider DAC map
