TEMPERATURE, SALINITY, and CURRENT VELOCITIES collected from a long-term FOCAL mooring in the Gulf of Mexico from 2007-10-01 to 2016-08-19 (NCEI Accession 0248354)

Description

This dataset contains temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, and current velocities obtained from the long-term Fisheries Oceanography in Coastal Alabama (FOCAL) mooring operated by the Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL). The mooring is located at 30°05.410'N, 88°12.694'W, along the 20-m isobath about 25 km southwest of Mobile Bay, Alabama. This dataset contains non-continuous data collected between 2007-10-01 and 2016-08-19 using a variety of instruments, including thermistors, CTDs, and a bottom-mounted, upward-looking RDI 600 Workhorse Sentinel ADCP. Parameters include temperature; salinity; current vectors, speeds, and direction; dissolved oxygen and oxygen saturation; and sound velocity, although not all datasets contain each parameter. The data are in ASCII format, and the raw ADCP data is also included.

Resources

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0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0248354
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/oas/248354
0 Navigate directly to the URL for data access and direct download. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/download/248354
0 These data are available through the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). FTP is no longer supported by most internet browsers. You may copy and paste the FTP link to the data into an FTP client (e.g., FileZilla or WinSCP). ftp://ftp-oceans.ncei.noaa.gov/nodc/archive/arc0195/0248354/
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 Institution web page https://www.harteresearch.org/
0 Institution web page https://www.tamucc.edu/
0 Institution web page https://www.disl.edu/
0 Institution web page https://www.disl.edu/
0 Institution web page https://www.disl.edu/
0 Institution web page http://www.usm.edu/
0 Institution web page https://www.disl.edu/
0 Institution web page http://www.usm.edu/
0 Institution web page https://www.disl.edu/
0 Institution web page https://www.disl.edu/
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 GRIIDC Data Webpage UDI: R4.x260.204:0033 https://doi.org/10.7266/n7qv3jxd
0 GRIIDC Data Webpage UDI: R4.x260.204:0034 https://doi.org/10.7266/n73f4mq6
0 GRIIDC Data Webpage UDI: R4.x260.000:0094 https://doi.org/10.7266/n7wh2njf
0 GRIIDC Data Webpage UDI: Y1.x014.000:0003 https://doi.org/10.7266/n77s7ktz
0 Institution web page https://www.disl.edu/
0 Institution web page http://www.usm.edu/
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords

Tags

  • ctd - specific model
  • alabama marine environmental science consortium (mesc)
  • t1e3fw
  • oceanography
  • temperature probe
  • consortium for oil spill exposure pathways in coastal river-dominated ecosystems (concorde)
  • specific conductance
  • ctd

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