Vital Statistics

Our 19 gliders have collectively spent 21 years 334 days at sea, recording 567,125 and covering 165725 km.
During these missions our gliders have collected 1,184,406,672 data points.
Our 4 sailbuoys have spent 1 years 179 days at sea sailing 67,601 km

Since the beginning of March 2021 we have had at least one glider in the water 99.4 % of the time.
On average, we have had 3.9 gliders in the water during this period.


Spatiotemporal coverage





Stats by year

N.B. stats for 2021 are from 2021-03-01 to 2021-12-31. Stats for the present year are from the 1st of January up to today.


Year Glider Deployed Skagerrak Bornholm Gotland Åland Total glider time Total profiles Mean gliders in water
2021 100.0 % 95.8 % 89.4 % 5.9 % 0.0 % 2 years 307 days 91649 3.2
2022 97.0 % 80.8 % 93.2 % 54.8 % 0.0 % 2 years 342 days 124708 2.9
2023 100.0 % 80.3 % 98.5 % 100.0 % 12.2 % 3 years 281 days 93117 3.7
2024 100.0 % 91.9 % 99.9 % 100.0 % 100.0 % 5 years 35 days 106526 5.0
2025 100.0 % 78.4 % 98.6 % 100.0 % 98.5 % 4 years 174 days 91652 4.5
2026 99.7 % 8.0 % 91.4 % 97.3 % 88.7 % 2 years 228 days 52230 3.5

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