Gulf of Mexico Navigation Profile Data, February–September 2005

Profile data collected in support of navigation investigations in the Gulf of Mexico and southern US coastal areas, February–September 2005. The dataset is published by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) under accession 0002496 and was last updated on September 27, 2005.

Use Cases

• Modeling coastal currents and water column properties for navigation safety (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Analyzing bathymetric or oceanographic profiles for maritime route planning (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Validating regional hydrodynamic models with in-situ profile data (inferred from domain, verify after download)

Strengths

• Published on the authoritative NASA Earthdata platform.
• Data collection has a defined temporal range from February to September 2005.
• Spatial coverage is specified as the Gulf of Mexico and southern US coastal areas.

Limitations

• Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
• Last updated 2005-09-27 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Collected in support of navigation investigations.

Time Range

February–September 2005

Freshness

2005-09 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Mexico and southern US coastal areas