USF Station C10: Oceanographic and Meteorological Data from the Gulf of Mexico, 2015-2016

From August 2015 to May 2016, oceanographic and surface meteorological data were collected from an in-situ moored station named c10 in the Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean. The University of South Florida Coastal Ocean Monitoring and Prediction System collected the data, which was assembled by the Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association and submitted to NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information. The data are stored in netCDF files following Climate and Forecast metadata conventions.

Use Cases

• Modeling coastal ocean circulation based on in-situ oceanographic measurements.
• Analyzing surface meteorological conditions for weather forecasting in the Gulf of Mexico.
• Studying temporal patterns in marine environmental data based on the monthly time-series collection.
• Validating satellite-derived oceanographic data products using the in-situ station observations.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 10-month period from 2015-08-01 to 2016-05-31.
• Data follows established Climate and Forecast (CF) and Attribute Convention for Data Discovery (ACDD) metadata standards.
• Collection is part of the Integrated Ocean Observing System Data Assembly Centers Data Stewardship Program, suggesting a formal quality framework.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2016-05-31; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

University of South Florida Coastal Ocean Monitoring and Prediction System, assembled by Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association.

Collection Method

Collected from an in-situ moored station.

Time Range

2015-08-01 to 2016-05-31

Freshness

Data collection ended in May 2016; the dataset is not actively updated.

Geography

Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean, specifically at station c10.