CTD Water Column Measurements from Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Response Cruise
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Description
NRDA-processed CTD data from the R/V Seward Johnson Cruise 1 Leg 4 provides conductivity, temperature, depth, dissolved oxygen, and fluorometry measurements. The dataset captures water column parameters collected from August 4 to August 8, 2010, as part of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill sampling effort. NOAA_NCEI is the authoritative source, and the final product is a series of processed and quality-checked NetCDF files.
Use Cases
Analyze vertical profiles of temperature and salinity (conductivity) to study water column stratification.
Correlate dissolved oxygen measurements with fluorometry data to assess potential impacts on marine ecosystems.
Map the spatial distribution of physical parameters (depth, temperature) across the Gulf of Mexico cruise track.
Use the time-series of CTD casts to track changes in water properties during the immediate oil spill response period.
Strengths
Data has been processed and quality checked, indicating a level of reliability.