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

An Operational System using Real-time Subsurface Observations to Improve Loop Current Forecasts (GODEEP)

Funding Cycle: Understanding Gulf Ocean Systems Grants 3
Funding Organization: National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine: Gulf Research Program

UGOS S2A (SOLO) profiling float data in the Gulf of Mexico, deployed from 2019-06-17 to 2023-06-03

Data from PIES Instruments in Yucatan Channel, 2023 -2025