Glider Physical Oceanographic Profiles in Gulf of Mexico

June 27 to July 23, 2018, this dataset contains physical oceanographic measurements collected by an underwater glider deployed in the Gulf of Mexico. The data includes properties like temperature, salinity, conductivity, and density along the glider's trajectory. It was collected by the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System and Texas A&M University's Geochemical and Environmental Research Group and archived by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information.

Use Cases

• Analyzing vertical profiles of temperature and salinity to study water column stratification.
• Mapping conductivity and density measurements to identify frontal boundaries or mixing zones.
• Correlating physical property measurements along the glider's trajectory with bathymetry or other geospatial data.
• Studying temporal changes in oceanographic conditions over the deployment period from June to July 2018.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific deployment period of approximately one month in 2018.
• Includes multiple core physical oceanographic properties: temperature, salinity, conductivity, and density.
• Data was checked for compliance with a standardized netCDF convention and aggregated by a national data assembly center.

Limitations

• Unknown number of data rows or sampling resolution.
• Limited temporal coverage to a single summer month, restricting analysis of seasonal cycles.
• Geographic scope is confined to the Gulf of Mexico deployment track, not a broader region.

Provenance

Source

Integrated Ocean Observing System's National Glider Data Assembly Center (IOOS NGDAC) and NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information.

Collection Method

Measured by an underwater glider (Reveille) deployed in the Gulf of Mexico, data aggregated into a netCDF file.

Time Range

2018-06-27 to 2018-07-23

Freshness

Data collection ended in July 2018; dataset is historical.

Geography

Gulf of Mexico.