Oceanographic and Meteorological Data from USF Station bcp, 2014-2015

University of South Florida (USF) Coastal Ocean Monitoring and Prediction System collected oceanographic and surface meteorological data from its in-situ moored station named bcp. The data covers the Coastal Waters of Florida, Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean from February 13, 2014, to January 29, 2015. The Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (SECOORA) assembled and submitted the data to the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) as part of the Integrated Ocean Observing System Data Assembly Centers Data Stewardship Program.

Use Cases

• Modeling coastal ocean circulation based on in-situ oceanographic measurements.
• Analyzing surface meteorological patterns in the Gulf of Mexico based on station data.
• Validating satellite-derived ocean data products based on ground-truth observations.
• Studying temporal variability in coastal waters based on time-series data.
• Assessing data assembly and stewardship workflows for regional ocean observing systems.

Strengths

• Data follows Climate and Forecast (CF) metadata convention and Attribute Convention for Data Discovery (ACDD), suggesting standardized formatting.
• Coverage spans nearly a full year (February 2014 to January 2015), providing a continuous time series.
• Data is part of a formal stewardship program (IOOS DACs), implying a level of quality control.

Limitations

• Last updated 2015-01-29 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to a single moored station (bcp).

Provenance

Source

University of South Florida (USF) Coastal Ocean Monitoring and Prediction System.

Collection Method

Collected from an in-situ moored station.

Time Range

2014-02-13 to 2015-01-29

Freshness

Data collection ended in January 2015; the dataset is historical.

Geography

Coastal Waters of Florida, Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean.