Glider Roxy Physical Oceanographic Profile Data in the Gulf of Mexico, 2016

Physical trajectory profile data from glider Roxy was deployed by TAMU - College Station's Geochemical and Environmental Research Group in the Coastal Waters of the Gulf of Mexico from 2016-09-14 to 2016-10-05. The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) received the data from the Integrated Ocean Observing System's National Glider Data Assembly Center (IOOS NGDAC). The data contain measurements of physical oceanographic properties such as temperature, salinity, conductivity, and density.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean currents and water density profiles based on the described temperature and salinity measurements.
• Improving hurricane intensity forecasts by analyzing pre-storm ocean heat content from the described temperature data.
• Studying coastal water mass properties and mixing based on the described conductivity and salinity profiles.
• Calibrating and validating regional ocean circulation models using in-situ glider trajectory and profile data.

Strengths

• Data originates from a known research institution (TAMU GERG) and was processed through the authoritative IOOS NGDAC pipeline.
• Covers a specific three-week deployment period from 2016-09-14 to 2016-10-05 in the Gulf of Mexico.
• Contains multiple core physical oceanographic variables as described: temperature, salinity, conductivity, and density.

Limitations

• Last updated 2016-10-05 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), via IOOS National Glider Data Assembly Center (NGDAC).

Collection Method

Collected via an underwater glider deployment, processed and aggregated into a netCDF file by IOOS NGDAC.

Time Range

2016-09-14 to 2016-10-05

Freshness

2016-10-05

Geography

Coastal Waters of the Gulf of Mexico