Processed CTD Data from Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Response Cruise

Conductivity Temperature and Depth (CTD) measurements were collected aboard the R/V Ocean Veritas 05 to determine physical oceanographic parameters of the water column during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The dataset includes temperature, conductivity/salinity, depth, dissolved oxygen, and fluorometry data from a cruise leg in June 2010. NOAA NCEI provides the final product as a series of processed and quality-checked NetCDF files.

Use Cases

• Analyzing vertical profiles of temperature, salinity, and dissolved oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico.
• Correlating fluorometry data with other water quality indicators during an oil spill event.
• Studying physical oceanographic conditions to guide environmental sampling efforts.
• Using geospatial coordinates (latitude, longitude) to map CTD cast locations from the research vessel.

Strengths

• Data has been processed and quality checked, as stated across all sources.
• Cross-platform presence on NASA EarthData and Data.gov indicates recognized importance and curation.

Limitations

• Specific row counts, file sizes, and exact column names are not provided by any source.
• Sources conflict on the 'last updated' date, listing both 2010-06-22 and 2026-03-05.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Measurements collected onboard the R/V Ocean Veritas 05 using CTD instrumentation.

Time Range

2010-06 21 to 2010-06-22

Freshness

2026-03-05 22:58:05.337319

Geography

Gulf of Mexico, specifically the Mississippi Canyon area associated with the Deepwater Horizon event.