gov.noaa.nodc:0222571 eng utf8 dataset NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information ncei.info@noaa.gov https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact HTTPS NOAA Contact Information Information for contacts at NCEI. information custodian 2026-04-02T17:05:54Z ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) Gulf of Mexico Regional Climatology version 2 (NCEI Accession 0222571) 2020-12-14 publication 2020-12-02 creation International DOI Foundation (IDF) 10.25921/4sxe-ay54 NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information gov.noaa.nodc:0222571 NCEI Archive Management System 0222571 NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information ncei.info@noaa.gov https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact HTTPS NCEI Contact Information Information for contacts at NCEI. information publisher Olga K. Baranova NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Olga.Baranova@noaa.gov resourceProvider NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) resourceProvider Seidov, Dan NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information author Mishonov, Alexey V. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information author Boyer, Tim P. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information author Baranova, Olga K. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information Olga.Baranova@noaa.gov author Nyadjro, Ebenezer Mississippi State University; Northern Gulf Institute https://www.northerngulfinstitute.org/ HTTPS Northern Gulf Institute (NGI) website Institution web page information author Cross, Scott L. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information author Parsons, A. Rost NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information author Weathers, Katharine A. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information katharine.weathers@noaa.gov author NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) contributor tableDigital Version 2 of the Gulf of Mexico Regional Climatology(GOM RC) was released in October, 2020. It includes all data from World Ocean Database 2018 (WOD18) and World Ocean Atlas 2018 (WOA18), and provides more detailed thermohaline fields and updates other oceanographic variables that were not available in the previous version. The update substantially revises and extends the original GOM RC, which was released in 2010 in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and updated in 2011 (Boyer et al, 2011). This climatology serves as a physical oceanography baseline for NOAA Gulf of Mexico Data Atlas, and the new high-resolution temperature and salinity decadal climatologies allow researchers to more precisely assess decadal climate change in the Gulf, substantially increasing this climatology’s value for ocean climate studies and other applications. This dataset is available to the public for a wide variety of uses including scientific research and analysis. completed historicalArchive NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information ncei.info@noaa.gov https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact HTTPS NCEI Contact Information Information for contacts at NCEI. information pointOfContact asNeeded https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/metadata/landing-page/bin/gfx?id=gov.noaa.nodc:0222571 Preview graphic PNG 0222571 NCEI ACCESSION NUMBER 2020-10-30 publication DISSOLVED OXYGEN NITRATE phosphate SALINITY silicate WATER TEMPERATURE theme NODC DATA TYPES THESAURUS bathythermograph - MBT bathythermograph - XBT bottle buoy buoy - drifting buoy buoy - moored buoy CTD CTD - moored CTD Niskin bottle profiling float undulating towed profiler XCTD instrument NODC INSTRUMENT TYPES THESAURUS physical profile theme NODC OBSERVATION TYPES THESAURUS MULTIPLE SHIPS OF UNITED STATES platform NODC PLATFORM NAMES THESAURUS NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information dataCentre NODC COLLECTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information dataCentre NODC SUBMITTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS GLOBAL OCEAN DATA ARCHAEOLOGY AND RESCUE PROJECT (GODAR) project NODC PROJECT NAMES THESAURUS Coastal Waters of Gulf of Mexico Gulf of Mexico place NODC SEA AREA NAMES THESAURUS oceanography theme WMO_CategoryCode 2012-09-15 publication DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce dataCentre Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords 2026 revision 24 Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Greenbelt MD https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords HTTPS GCMD Keyword Forum Page 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 information custodian GODAR > Global Oceanographic Data Archaeology and Rescue Project project Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Project Keywords 2026 revision 24 Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Greenbelt MD https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords HTTPS GCMD Keyword Forum Page 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 information custodian EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > NITRATE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > OXYGEN EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > PHOSPHATE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > SILICATE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY theme Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords 2026 revision 24 Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Greenbelt MD https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords HTTPS GCMD Keyword Forum Page 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 information custodian CTD > Conductivity, Temperature, Depth DRIFTING BUOYS > DRIFTING BUOYS MBT > Mechanical Bathythermographs NISKIN BOTTLES SCANFISH > SHIP-TOWED UNDULATING VEHICLE XBT > Expendable Bathythermographs instrument Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Instrument Keywords 2026 revision 24 Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Greenbelt MD https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords HTTPS GCMD Keyword Forum Page 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 information custodian OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF AMERICA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MEXICO place Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords 2026 revision 24 Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Greenbelt MD https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords HTTPS GCMD Keyword Forum Page Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. 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You may copy and paste the FTP link to the data into an FTP client (e.g., FileZilla or WinSCP). download dataset NCEI Accession 0222571 v1.1 was published. 2020-12-14T00:00:00Z NCEI Accession 0222571 v1.1 publication https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0222571/1.1 HTTPS NCEI Accession 0222571 v1.1 published 2020-12-14T00:00:00Z download asNeeded Metadata are developed, maintained and distributed by NCEI. Updates are performed as needed to maintain currentness. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information custodian bathythermograph - MBT bathythermograph - MBT Mechanical BathyThermograph bathythermograph - XBT bathythermograph - XBT eXpendable BathyThermograph bottle bottle any type of water bottle sampling device Generic name for water collection device; usually used to determine temperature, salinity and provide water aliquots for measurement of a wide range of parameters; often referred to by a specific type of water sampling bottle, such as a Nansen or Niskin bottle. buoy buoy generic type of floating instrumentation package buoy - drifting buoy buoy - drifting buoy buoy - drifting buoy buoy - moored buoy buoy - moored buoy a moored buoy does not measure anything. it is a platform for instruments, which do measure things. CTD CTD Conductivity-Temperature-Depth probe CTD - moored CTD CTD - moored CTD CTD - moored CTD Niskin bottle Niskin bottle Device for obtaining samples of seawater at a specific depth Why special entry for Niskin bottle but no entry for Nansen bottle? profiling float profiling float PALACE and other types of profiling drifters any one of several types of free-drifting (floating) instrument packages that measure one or more water column parameters, such as temperature, salinity, etc., along with reporting the date, time, and location of the measurements taken over time. Examples include the P-ALACE or PALACE floats, drifting buoys, etc. undulating towed profiler undulating towed profiler A towed, undulating vehicle systen designed for collecting profile data of the water column in oceanographic, bathymetric and environmental monitoring applications XCTD XCTD expendable conductivity, temperature, depth profiler MULTIPLE SHIPS OF UNITED STATES MULTIPLE SHIPS OF UNITED STATES