CTD Oceanographic Data from Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Response Cruise

Conductivity, temperature, depth, dissolved oxygen, and fluorometry data were collected aboard NOAA Ship Pisces from September 25 to October 3, 2010. The data consists of processed and quality-checked CTD casts from a cruise associated with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill event. It was produced by NOAA NCEI.

Use Cases

• Analyze temperature and salinity profiles to assess water column stratification during the spill event.
• Correlate dissolved oxygen measurements with fluorometry data to evaluate potential impacts on phytoplankton.
• Model depth-dependent conductivity changes to understand plume dispersion.
• Use time-series CTD cast data to track changes in oceanographic parameters over the 9-day cruise.

Strengths

• Data has been processed and quality checked according to the description.
• Collection occurred during a specific, high-impact environmental event (Deepwater Horizon oil spill).

Limitations

• Unknown row count and dataset size limits statistical analysis.
• Data is temporally limited to a single 9-day cruise in 2010.
• Geographic coverage is restricted to the Gulf of Mexico area surveyed by the cruise.

Provenance

Source

NOAA NCEI (NCEI Accession 0130227)

Collection Method

CTD measurements collected onboard NOAA Ship Pisces.

Time Range

2010-09-25 to 2010-10-03

Freshness

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Geography

Gulf of Mexico (specific cruise track unknown)