October 15 to November 15, 1994, this dataset contains water depth and temperature profiles collected from aircraft in the Gulf of Mexico. It was gathered as part of the LATEX part C Gulf of Mexico Eddy Circulation Study, submitted by Dr. Thomas Berger of Science Applications, Inc. The study was a large federal initiative funded by the U.S. Minerals Management Service to understand ocean circulation.
Use Cases
- Track Loop Current eddies using sequential water temperature profiles from air-deployed instruments.
- Analyze the relationship between water depth and temperature features to identify slope eddies and jets.
- Model shelf circulation impacts by correlating temperature-depth profiles with geographic location data.
- Validate ocean circulation models with in-situ temperature and depth measurements from a focused time period.
Strengths
- Data collected during a major, $16.2 million federal oceanography program (LATEX).
- Temporally focused on a one-month period (October 15 to November 15, 1994) for targeted analysis.
- Spatially covers the coastal waters of the Gulf of Mexico from the Mississippi River to the Rio Grande.
Limitations
- Dataset is temporally limited to a single month in 1994, offering only a seasonal snapshot.
- Specific row count, column details, and sample size are unknown, limiting reproducibility.
- Data collection relied on air-deployed expendable instruments, which may have inherent measurement noise.
Provenance
- Source
- Submitted by Dr. Thomas Berger, Science Applications, Inc., via NOAA NCEI.
- Collection Method
- Collected from aircraft using bathythermograph aerial (AXBT) and Airborne Expendable Current Profiler (AXCP) instruments.
- Time Range
- 1994-10-15 to 1994-11-15
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Coastal Waters of Gulf of Mexico, from the Mississippi River to the Rio Grande.