CTD Water Column Measurements from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Response

Five days of Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth (CTD) measurements collected from September 11 to 15, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico. The dataset includes parameters like dissolved oxygen and fluorometry, processed into quality-checked NetCDF files. Data was gathered by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill sampling effort aboard the vessel Specialty Diver.

Use Cases

• Modeling the vertical stratification of water temperature and salinity (conductivity) from CTD casts.
• Analyzing correlations between fluorometry readings and potential hydrocarbon presence in the water column.
• Assessing dissolved oxygen levels as an indicator of environmental stress following the oil spill event.
• Tracing the spatial and temporal distribution of collected parameters across the cruise's sampling stations.

Strengths

• Data is processed and quality-checked, as stated in the source description.
• Covers a specific, critical event (Deepwater Horizon oil spill) with clear temporal bounds.
• Includes multiple related oceanographic parameters (temperature, conductivity, depth, dissolved oxygen, fluorometry).

Limitations

• Sample size and specific row/column counts are unknown.
• Temporal coverage is limited to a single 5-day cruise leg.
• Geographic coverage is specific to the Gulf of Mexico cruise track, limiting generalizability.

Provenance

Source

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), Accession 0130251.

Collection Method

Measurements collected via shipboard CTD casts aboard the Specialty Diver vessel.

Time Range

2010-09-11 to 2010-09-15

Freshness

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Geography

Gulf of Mexico, specific to the cruise track of Specialty Diver I, Cruise 1 Leg 1.