The northern Gulf of Mexico receives water from more than 50 rivers that are highly influenced by humans and include the largest river in the United States, the Mississippi River. To support large-scale data-driven research centered on the dynamic river-ocean system in the region, Bailey Armos, Shuang Zhang, Tao Wen, Ellie Walker and Prabir Daripa consolidated hydrogeochemical river and ocean data from across the nGoM into a new coupled database.
They harmonized 35 chemical solute parameters from 54 rivers and incorporated river discharge data to derive daily solute concentration and flux estimates throughout the northern Gulf and integrated the river data with 17 ocean parameters.
The pre-processed and time-averaged River-Ocean coupled Database for the nGoM (ROcD-nGoM) is designed to streamline and enhance diverse research efforts related to the northern Gulf and to showcase the value of making hydrological and oceanographic data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable).
The database contains river chemistry and discharge (Q) data for 54 rivers, streams, and bayous entering the norther Gulf, including the raw observations (ConcAve) as well as a daily concentration (ConcDay) and flux estimations from the USGS WRTDS model. The database also contains 17 chemical and physical ocean parameters from GCOOS and the MODIS and SeaWiFS satellite sensors.
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- Citation: Armos, B., Zhang, S., Wen, T. et al. A harmonized river-ocean coupled database for the northern Gulf of Mexico. Sci Data 11, 1449 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-04338-1