Glider Days 2008-2017 - The U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)

Region	Year	How many glider days collected total?	Of total, how many collected outside the EEZ?	Of total, how many supported by IOOS PO (O&M not capital costs)?	Comments/Notes
IOOS	2008	4013	890	349
	2009	4744	1132	337
	2010	4973	1329	990
	2011	5740	1663	772
	2012	6292	1793	715
	2013	7647	3538	990
	2014	4154	307	1224
	2015	5546	1681	1015
	2016	3603	1770	902*
	2017	5273	629	513*
	2008 - 2017	51985	14732	7807*
	*IOOS Supported data is low, because it was not available for RAs that reported via DAC output

AOOS	2008	47	0	0
	2009	45	0	0
	2010	132	0	0
	2011	74	0	0
	2012	14	0	0
	2013	44	0	0
	2014	183	0	32
	2015	59	0	59
	2016	368	0	0
	2017	38	0	0

CariCOOS	2008	0	0	0	2014: AOML Days; 2017: IOOS supported launch/recovery of AOML gliders
	2009	0	0	0
	2010	0	0	0
	2011	0	0	0
	2012	0	0	0
	2013	0	0	0
	2014	250	0	0
	2015	383	0	383
	2016	498	0	Unk
	2017	308	0	308

CeNCOOS	2008	6	0	0
	2009	5	0	0
	2010	29	0	0
	2011	0	0	0
	2012	57	0	35
	2013	246	0	0
	2014	366	88	353
	2015	492	N/A	298
	2016	324	282	97
	2017	478	unk	Unk

GCOOS	2008	0	0	0	2013: Used 2012 days +10% for GERG
	2009	78	0	0
	2010	118	0	0
	2011	59	0	0
	2012	62	0	29
	2013	68	0	29
	2014	263	0	35
	2015	318	0	2
	2016	152	0	unk
	2017	259	0	Unk

GLOS	2008	0	0	0	Used 2012 days for 2013
	2009	0	0	0
	2010	0	0	0
	2011	41	0	0
	2012	58	0	58
	2013	58	0	58
	2014	149	0	149
	2015	80	0	19
	2016	0	0	0
	2017	136	0	136

MARACOOS	2008	604	226	40	2013: Includes all regions for Gliderpalooza, not OTN
	2009	760	413	60
	2010	877	194	353
	2011	624	353	99
	2012	818	477	74
	2013	978	338	102
	2014	404	115	52
	2015	1020	723	131
	2016	900	unk	unk
	2017	698	489	65

NANOOS	2008	422	0	0	2017: 308 days also counted in CeNCOOS
	2009	325	0	28
	2010	650	102	85
	2011	1078	78	224
	2012	641	112	76
	2013	2151	1644	335
	2014	645	104	231
	2015	431	90	182.5
	2016	226	unk	unk
	2017	484	0	Unk

NERACOOS	2008	78	0	0	2013: Gliderpalooza and WHOI days included in SCCOOS and MARACOOS
	2009	78	0	0
	2010	78	0	0
	2011	0	0	0
	2012	78	0	0
	2013	0	0	0
	2014	52	0	0
	2015	42	0	0
	2016	0	0	0
	2017	0	0	0

PacIOOS	2008	450	0	56
	2009	510	0	59
	2010	500	0	201
	2011	690	0	99
	2012	600	0	86
	2013	427	0	93
	2014	236	0	0
	2015	186	0	0
	2016	113	0	0
	2017	104	0	0

SCCOOS	2008	2406	664	253
	2009	2943	719	190
	2010	2589	1033	351
	2011	3094	1232	350
	2012	3765	1204	357
	2013	3665	1556	360
	2014	1584	0	365
	2015	2164	868	N/A
	2016	1093	1093	307
	2017	2823	unk	unk

SECOORA	2008	0	0	0
	2009	0	0	0
	2010	0	0	0
	2011	80	0	0
	2012	199	0	0
	2013	10	0	13
	2014	22	0	7
	2015	0	0	0
	2016	58	0	unk
	2017	113	0	4

Non-RA Gliders	2017	140	140	0	Represent AOML, BIOS

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