@inproceedings{he_woods_zambon_xue_2016, title={Monitoring the Gulf Stream and shelf environment in the South Atlantic Bight through integrated autonomous underwater glider observations and data assimilative ocean model predictions}, DOI={10.1109/oceansap.2016.7485539}, abstractNote={Gliders are the state-of-the-art autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) that can operate unattended for roughly a month-long period in the ocean. Given a forward horizontal speed of 0.25 ms-1, gliders can cover ~ 25 km per day. They trace sawtooth profiles in the ocean by changing buoyancy, observing subsurface temperature, conductivity, and other water properties versus depth, and at the surface, fix position via Global Positioning System. Onshore team monitor and direct glider trajectories using two-way Iridium satellite communications, which permit near real-time delivery of observations and re-direction of mission/adaptive sampling. NCSU Ocean Observing and Modeling Group group has been running glider surveys in the South Atlantic Bight on a seasonal basis. Active research are being carried out to assimilate glider data along with other coastal ocean observations (satellite SST and SSH, mooring time series, HF Radar surface currents) into high resolution regional ocean model using advanced variational data assimilation schemes, providing a new look at along-shelf and cross-shelf exchanges associated with Gulf Stream dynamics.}, booktitle={Oceans 2016 - shanghai}, publisher={IEEE}, author={He, R. Y. and Woods, W. and Zambon, Joseph and Xue, Z.}, year={2016}, pages={1–4} }