Dry Tortugas and Lower Keys High Frequency Radars

Description: This project will procure, install, and operate high frequency radar systems to measure surface currents at three locations in the Straits of Florida region of the Gulf of Mexico: Fort Jefferson/Dry Tortugas National Park, Key West, and Marathon. Data from the systems will provide new, real-time data for model assimilation and validation to better understand the evolution of the LCS.

Funding Cycle: Understanding Gulf Ocean Systems Grants 1
Funding Organization: National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine: Gulf Research Program

Gulf of Mexico Loop Current and Eddy Observations from High Frequency Radar Systems

Description: This project will procure, install, and operate high frequency radar systems to measure surface currents from two offshore platforms at locations in the northeastern most areas of oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico. Data from the systems will provide new, real-time data for model assimilation and validation to better understand the evolution of the LCS.

Funding Cycle: Understanding Gulf Ocean Systems Grants 1
Funding Organization: National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine: Gulf Research Program

Informing the Loop Current Campaign: Data Compilation to Improve Understanding, Simulation, and Prediction of the Loop Current System

Description: This project will design, develop, deploy, and maintain an information system to digitally compile, update, analyze, and make publicly accessible physical oceanographic and hydrographic data from Gulf of Mexico Loop Current field studies. The system will be an important component of future data compilation efforts for a long-term LCS research campaign.

Funding Cycle: Understanding Gulf Ocean Systems Grants 1
Funding Organization: National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine: Gulf Research Program

Loop Current Floats: Near-Real-Time Hydrography and Deep Velocity in the Loop Current System Using Autonomous Profilers

Description: This project will procure, deploy, and maintain a fleet of autonomous ocean dynamics-instrumented profiling floats to measure temperature, salinity, and current velocities in LCS active areas of the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

Funding Cycle: Understanding Gulf Ocean Systems Grants 1
Funding Organization: National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine: Gulf Research Program

Numerical Modeling

Description: This project will perform assessments of existing Gulf of Mexico forecasting systems to test the performance and sensitivity of current models in resolving both surface and subsurface circulation and to evaluate long-range prediction capabilities.

Funding Cycle: Understanding Gulf Ocean Systems Grants 1
Funding Organization: National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine: Gulf Research Program

Passive Gulf of Mexico Loop Current Observations from High Frequency Radar Across the Yucatan Strait

Description: This project will procure, install, and operate high frequency radar systems to measure surface currents at two locations in the Yucatan Channel region of the Gulf of Mexico: Isla Contoy and Puerto Morelos. Data from the systems will provide new, real-time data for model assimilation and validation to better understand the evolution of the LCS.

Funding Cycle: Understanding Gulf Ocean Systems Grants 1
Funding Organization: National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine: Gulf Research Program

Pressure and Current Meters

Description: This project will procure and deploy a coherent field array of sensors in deep waters of the central Gulf region to measure currents and pressures in the full water column from areas near the ocean floor to the surface. Data collected about full water column circulation will increase understanding of LCS behavior and inform LCS forecasting efforts.

Funding Cycle: Understanding Gulf Ocean Systems Grants 1
Funding Organization: National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine: Gulf Research Program

Taking the Pulse of the West Florida Shelf at a Hypothesized Loop Current Control Point

Description: This project will procure, deploy, and operate a single-point, real-time ocean dynamics mooring northwest of the Dry Tortugas to measure temperature, salinity, and currents at different depths.

Funding Cycle: Understanding Gulf Ocean Systems Grants 1
Funding Organization: National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine: Gulf Research Program

Marathon, Fl (MARA) HFR - Codar SeaSonde - Raw Data

Surface ocean velocities obtained by High Frequency (HF) radar stations located in Straits of Florida from 2019-12-28 to 2022-06-03

Water velocity, water temperature, salinity and meteorological data from the Pressure Point Mooring (PPM) on the west Florida shelf (deployment #1, C22AA), 2019-06-27 to 2020-08-12

Water velocity, water temperature, salinity, and meteorological data from the Pressure Point Mooring (PPM) on the west Florida shelf, deployment #2 (deployment name C22AB), from 2020-08-12 to 2021-09-28

Water temperature, salinity, oxygen, and other parameters collected by CTD from R/V Pelican in the Gulf of Mexico from 2020-09-25 to 2020-10-04

Water temperature, salinity, oxygen, and other parameters collected by CTD from the R/V Pelican in Gulf of Mexico from 2019-06-14 to 2019-10-03

Near-bottom current and temperature data collected in the Gulf of Mexico, 2019-06-14 to 2021-05-19

Bottom pressure and temperature collected in the Gulf of Mexico, 2019-06-14 - 2021-05-19

Vertical acoustic travel time data collected in the Gulf of Mexico, 2019-06-14 - 2021-05-19

Water temperature, salinity, oxygen, and other parameters collected by CTD from R/V Pelican in the Gulf of Mexico from 2021-05-12 to 2021-05-18

Estimates of vertical profiles of temperature, salinity and geopotential anomaly from an array of Pressure-recording Inverted Echo Sounders (PIES) in the Gulf of Mexico from 2019-06-15 to 2021-05-18

Sea surface height anomaly determined from an array of Pressure-recording Inverted Echo Sounders (PIES) in the Gulf of Mexico, 2019-06-14 to 2021-05-19