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Autonomous underwater glider (AUG); Underwater glider (UG)

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Underwater Glider (UG) is a new type of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), which can perform three-dimensional observation from the surface to its working depth. UG follows a typical sawtooth-like profile in the ocean. The observation duration is generally several months, and the cruising range capacity can reach thousands of kilometers. It has the characteristics of low noise, low cost, and round-the-clock service. It can carry different mission sensors (e.g., CTD, Shear Probe) and is equipped with GPS navigation and positioning system. It has become a quasi-real-time, sustainable, large-scale, and high-resolution platform for marine observation and detection.

The concept of UG, a glider with a buoyancy engine powered by a heat exchanger, was first introduced to the oceanographic community by Henry Stommel in 1989, when he proposed a glider concept called Slocum, developed with research engineer Doug Webb...

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Wang, Y., Yang, S. (2019). Glider. In: Cui, W., Fu, S., Hu, Z. (eds) Encyclopedia of Ocean Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6963-5_48-1

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