Gulf of Mexico High-Resolution (0.01° x 0.01°) Bathymetric Grid - Version 1, August 2011

High resolution (0.01° x 0.01°)Gulf of Mexico bathymetric grid, version 1.0 generated in August 2011. Data are in HYCOM native format. Luis Zamudio-Lopez (NRL, [e-mail]) kindly offered an initial 1=100°(~1000 m) bathymetric grid for the regionThis grid has been computationally modified and substantially hand edited (a) to better match the shoreline definition, (b) fill the voids in the water depths and (c) if possible, to more accurate represent the interpolated water depths. The final numerical grid conforms to the 1=25°(~4000 m) North Atlantic HYCOM computational domain, where they are both matched at 76:40 oW longitude. Data used in the development of the new grid include GSHHS: A Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Shoreline Database, GEBCO 30 arc-sec global grid, and the National Geophysical Data Center’s (NGDC) 6 arc-sec U.S. Coastal Relief Model database, volumes: 2, 3, 4 and 5.