GulfHub is a data portal designed to compile and make publicly accessible physical oceanographic and hydrographic data from the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current field studies. This facility consolidates data from various sources and a variety of oceanographic platforms such as Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs), single-point current meters, ship and air deployed sensors, airborne current sensors, autonomous vehicles, high-frequency radars, buoyancy gliders, Lagrangian and card drifters, and satellites. In collaboration with project partners in the oil and gas industry, privately-held data will be aggregated, quality controlled beyond the QARTOD recommended procedures and archived on this portal.

This project is lead by the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing (GCOOS) Regional Association and partnered with the Harte Research Institute in Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Woods Hole Group, RPS Group, Texas A&M University in College Station, Fugro, and Ocean Sierra.

Data Services

Web Accessible Folder (WAF) is provided to present the raw data that were accummulated by the project. A detailed inventory is given below.

The Gulfhub ERDDAP server contains the validated data in the NetCDF format compliant with the NOAA IOOS specifications. Click here to view the working metadata requirements for GulfHub netCDF data.

Data Inventory

The map on the right is the stations generated from the ERDDAP server that contains the QC'd data and in standard netCDF data format. As data are ingested, the map will change accordingly.

The solid dots are point (pink) or station data (green). The line plots (yellow) are trajectories obtained from a glider or vessel-mounted ADCPs (VMADCP). Overlayed is the latest HYCOM ocean current model.

An animated map is also avaialble to view the geospatial spread of the data in time.

Click here to open a map of
data point with time slider.

Data Collection Status

Ref	Title/Studies	Source	Data Type	Start Date	End Date	Status*
1	BOEM/BSEE NTL Data	NDBC	ADCP station data	2005	2010	Ingested
2	BOEM/BSEE NTL Data	NDBC	ADCP station data	2011	2020	Submitted
3	Gumbo (Near Bed measurement program)	Fugro	Mooring Data	1998	1999	Ingested
4	Gull (TRW measurement program)	Fugro	Mooring Data	2001	2003	Ingested
5	Industry Loop Current Survey	Fugro	VMADCP	2004	2006	Ingested
6	Environmental Data for enhanced UDW operations safety	RPSEA/Fugro	Multi-platform	2014	2015	Ingested
7	Deepwater Currents in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico	MMS/LSU	Mooring Data	2000	2002	Submitted
8	Manifestation of the Loop Current and Loop Current Rings in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico	MMS/LSU	Mooring Data	2005	2007	Submitted
9	The Deepwater Program: Northern Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope Habitat and Benthic Ecology	MMS/TAMU	Mooring Data	1999	2003	Submitted
10	Study of Deepwater Currents in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico	BOEMRE/EHI	Multi-platform	2005	2006	Submitted
11	Observations and Dynamics of the Loop Current	BOEM/Leidos	Multi-platform	2009	2011	Ingested
12	Exploratory Study of Deepwater Currents in the Gulf of Mexico	MMS/SAIC	Multi-platform	2002	2003	Submitted
13	Deep Circulation in the Gulf of Mexico: A Lagrangian Study (RAFOS Floats)	NOEM/Leidos	Drifters	2016	2016	Submitted
14	Eddy Intrusion Study	MMS/SAIC	Multi-platform	1997	19999	Submitted
15	Survey of Deepwater Currents in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico	MMS/SAIC	Multi-platform	2004	2005	Submitted
16	Northeastern Gulf of Mexico Physical Oceanography Program: Chemical Oceanography and Hydrography Study	MMS/TAMU	Multi-platform	2004	2005	Submitted
17	CICESE Data for Floride Straits	CICESE	Mooring Data	2015	2016	Identified
18	Yucatan Inflow Study	Deepstar/CICESE	Mooring Data	1998	2000	Identified
19	Industry Loop Current Survey	Industry Anon	VMADCP	2015	2015	Identified
20	PEMEX Study 2007-2015, Western Gulf 33 Moorings coastal to deep water	PEMEX/CICESE	Mooring Data	2007	2015	Identified
21	CICESE Canek	CICESE	Mooring Data	2001	2019	Identified
22	CiGOM	CiGOM/Consortium	Multi-platform	2017	2019	Identified
23	Industry VMADCP (23 days)	Industry Anon	VMADCP	2011	2011	Identified
24	Industry VMADCP (23 days)	Industry Anon	VMADCP	2014	2014	Identified
25	Industry VMADCP (228 Days)	Industry Anon	VMADCP	2015	2015	Identified
26	Industry VMADCP Data	Industry Anon	VMADCP	2006	2019	Released
27	Industry Drifter Study	Industry Anon	Drifter	2015	2015	Identified
28	Industry Wavescan data	Industry Anon	Mooring Data	2015	2015	Identified
29	Industry XBT Data	Industry Anon	XBT Cast	2015	2015	Identified
30	TRW Study	Deepstar	Mooring Data	2003	2004	Identified
31	Relevent GRIIDC data (CARTHE, GISR)	GRIIDC	Multi-platform	2012	2015	Submitted
32	Relevent GCOOS data (SSH, SST)	GCOOS	Multi-platform	1995	2020	Submitted
33	IOOS HF Radar (Only data relevant to UGOS)	IOOS	HF Radar			Released
34	IOOS Gulf of Mexico Glider Data	IOOS	Glider			Released
35	Various Hydrography Data sets	(Various)	XBT Cast			Identified
36	Eddywatch Drifter Data	Woods Hole Group	Drifter	2000	2019	Identified
37	Drifter Data obtained from ARGOS Ground Station	TAMU	Drifter	1988	1999	Identified
38	Industry VMADCP and Mooring data	Exxon	(Various)	2000	2019	Identified
39	NAS HF Radar Data	NAS	HF Radar	2019	2021	Identified
40	NAS ARGO Data	NAS	Drifter	2019	2021	Identified
41	NAS Pinch Point Buoy	NAS	Mooring Data	2019	2021	Identified
42	NAS PIES data	NAS	Mooring Data	2019	2021	Identified
43	2009-2011 NAS Modeling Study	NAS	Model	2009	2011	Identified
44	2014-2015 NAS Modeling Study	NAS	Model	2014	2015	Identified

*Identified: Dataset was requested; Released: Dataset can be downloaded and used; Submitted: Raw data is already in the GulfHub WAF; Ingested: Data has been processed and now on the GulfHub ERDDAP server.