Gulf of Mexico Hydrographic CTD Measurements from Cruise PE21-05, 2020

NOAA_NCEI Accession 0224258 contains water temperature, salinity, oxygen, and other parameters collected by CTD from the research vessel Pelican. Data were gathered in the Gulf of Mexico from 2020-09 25 to 2020-10-04 to calibrate travel time measurements from moored instrumentation. The dataset is stored in NetCDF format.

Use Cases

• Calibrating moored current- and pressure-recording inverted echo sounders based on the described purpose.
• Modeling water column properties like temperature and salinity in the Gulf of Mexico.
• Analyzing spatial and temporal hydrographic patterns from the cruise-based collection method.
• Validating oceanographic models using in-situ CTD measurement data.

Strengths

• Data collected for a specific calibration purpose from an array of moored instrumentation.
• Covers a defined temporal range from 2020-09-25 to 2020-10-04.
• Includes multiple core oceanographic parameters: water temperature, salinity, and oxygen.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2020-10-04 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Collected by CTD from the research vessel Pelican on cruise PE21-05.

Time Range

2020-09-25 to 2020-10-04

Freshness

Last updated 2020-10-04 00:00:00.

Geography

Gulf of Mexico