
About this Product: GulfHub
GulfHub is a data portal that compiles and makes publicly accessible physical oceanographic and hydrographic data from the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current field studies. It 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.
Who is this product for?
Primarily used by research scientists and oil and gas industry, however the data portal is accessible to everyone and serves as an excellent educational resource.
Features
- In collaboration with project partners in the oil and gas industry, privately-held data are aggregated, quality controlled beyond the QARTOD recommended procedures and archived on this portal.
- For further details on data QA/QC, please read “GulfHub: Leveraging industry-academic partnerships to expand physical oceanographic data availability in the Gulf of Mexico.”
How was this tool developed?
GulfHub is led by GCOOS with partners from the Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Woods Hole Group, RPS Group, Texas A&M University in College Station, Fugro and Ocean Sierra.