Stokes drift Eulerian velocity components in the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Stokes drift is a potentially important contributing factor to transport of oil on the sea surface. We collected WAVEWATCH III hindcast data in an ascii format and used parameters from this model to calculate Stokes drift at the surface. We then collected the Stokes drift data in netCDF files to make them more available to the scientific community. The WAVEWATCH III hindcast output data was obtained from NOAA's National Weather Service Environmental Modeling Center (http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/waves/viewer.shtml?-multi_1-gmex-).