Dataset for: Eddies Connect the Tropical Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico

This dataset contains the data for the publication Huang et. al (2021) which studied how the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current (LC) system behaviors are influenced by upstream mesoscale eddies within the Caribbean Sea. Included in this dataset are eddy trajectory, satellite altimetry, sea surface salinity and ocean color data. The analysis of these data demonstrates that mesoscale eddies originating in the western tropical Atlantic Ocean enter the Gulf of Mexico influence the LC. All the datasets used are publicly available and can be downloaded online, however, the spatial and temporal extents of these data used in the study have been extracted and combined in this dataset. Some of the datasets in this data package have been converted to Matlab (.mat) files. This dataset supports the publication: Huang, M., Liang, X., Zhu, Y., Liu, Y., & Weisberg, R. H. (2021). Eddies Connect the Tropical Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(4). doi:10.1029/2020gl091277.