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WATER TEMPERATURE, Depth, and SALINITY collected from RV Walton Smith in Gulf of Mexico from 2012-07-01 to 2012-08-01 (NCEI Accession 0156594)

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59 CTD casts made from small boats launched by the RV Walton Smith in the northern Gulf of Mexico near DeSoto Canyon in July 2012 as part of the Grand Lagrangian Deployment (GLAD) experiment. This dataset was created by the Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment (CARTHE). This research was made possible by a grant from BP/The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative.
  • Cite as: Haus, Brian (2016). WATER TEMPERATURE, Depth, and SALINITY collected from RV Walton Smith in Gulf of Mexico from 2012-07-01 to 2012-08-01 (NCEI Accession 0156594). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0156594. Accessed [date].
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Time Period 2012-07-22 to 2012-07-31
Spatial Bounding Box Coordinates
West: -89.2838
East: -87.5004
South: 27.4718
North: 29.2695
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General Documentation
Associated Resources
  • Lipphardt, Bruce. (2014). GLAD experiment CTD casts from small boats, northern Gulf of Mexico, July 2012. [Data set]. Harte Research Institute. https://doi.org/10.7266/n7zp441m
  • Haus, Brian (2016). Water Temperature, Conductivity, and others collected from RV Walton Smith in Gulf of Mexico from 2012-07-21 to 2012-08-01 (NCEI Accession 0156586). NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0156586.
  • Laxague, N. J. M., Haus, B. K., Bogucki, D., & Özgökmen, T. (2015). Spectral characterization of fine‐scale wind waves using shipboard optical polarimetry. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 120(4), 3140–3156. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014jc010403
Publication Dates
  • publication: 2016-11-29
Data Presentation Form Digital table - digital representation of facts or figures systematically displayed, especially in columns
Dataset Progress Status Complete - production of the data has been completed
Historical archive - data has been stored in an offline storage facility
Data Update Frequency As needed
Purpose These CTD casts were made to determine the hydrography of the upper water column as one way to characterize the meso- and submesoscale variability in the region where 297 CODE-type ocean drifters were launched in an attempt to measure multi-scale near surface dispersion. The drifters were drogued at 1 meter and most of them were launched in triplets (initially separated by roughly 100 meters).
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Dataset Citation
  • Cite as: Haus, Brian (2016). WATER TEMPERATURE, Depth, and SALINITY collected from RV Walton Smith in Gulf of Mexico from 2012-07-01 to 2012-08-01 (NCEI Accession 0156594). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0156594. Accessed [date].
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  • Funding Agency: Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI)
Theme keywords NODC DATA TYPES THESAURUS NODC OBSERVATION TYPES THESAURUS WMO_CategoryCode
  • oceanography
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
Data Center keywords NODC SUBMITTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS
Platform keywords NODC PLATFORM NAMES THESAURUS ICES/SeaDataNet Ship Codes
Instrument keywords NODC INSTRUMENT TYPES THESAURUS Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Instrument Keywords
Place keywords NODC SEA AREA NAMES THESAURUS Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords
Project keywords NODC PROJECT NAMES THESAURUS
Keywords NCEI ACCESSION NUMBER
Keywords Send2NCEI Submission Package ID
  • 2LGX25
Use Constraints
  • Cite as: Haus, Brian (2016). WATER TEMPERATURE, Depth, and SALINITY collected from RV Walton Smith in Gulf of Mexico from 2012-07-01 to 2012-08-01 (NCEI Accession 0156594). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0156594. Accessed [date].
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  • 2016-11-29T17:52:43Z - NCEI Accession 0156594 v1.1 was published.
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Processing Steps
  • Data Type: TEMPERATURE [WATER TEMPERATURE] (measured); Units: degree celcius; Observation Type: in situ; Sampling Instrument: CTD
  • Data Type: Depth (measured); Units: meters; Observation Type: in situ; Sampling Instrument: CTD
  • Data Type: SALINITY (calculated); Units: psu; Observation Type: in situ; Sampling Instrument: CTD
Acquisition Information (collection)
Instrument
  • CTD
Platform
  • R/V F.G. Walton Smith
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