Slocum glider and turbulence data collected by TAMU glider unit 541 aboard R/V Point Sur during the GoMix II cruise (PS18-06) in the northern Gulf of Mexico from 2017-08-21 to 2017-09-09

This dataset contains CTD and turbulence data from the TAMU Slocum glider Unit 541 during the GoMix II cruise (R/V Point Sur, PS18-06) from 2017-08-21 to 2017-09-09. The experimental site is on the continental slope of the northern Gulf of Mexico, next to the Deepwater Horizon spill site. GoMix is a three year project with the goal of understanding the mechanisms, spatial inhomogeneity, and temporal intermittency of boundary mixing along the Northern Deepwater Gulf. The glider used was a Deep G2 Slocum glider equipped with a Rockland Scientific MicroRider turbulence sensing package. The glider was deployed on the shelf and instructed to fly cross-slope transects between approximately 200 to 1000 water depth. It was operated in yo-yo mode and collected data from 20 m (the base of the surface mixed layer) to ~15 m above the bottom. Temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, CDOM, chlorophyll, and turbidity were collected by the CTD aboard the glider. The turbulence package only collected data from 2017-09-02 to 2017-09-07. The dataset contains binary and exported ASCII data flight (DBD) and science (EBD) data, as well as output from the MicroRider in binary and Matlab format. Dissipation was calculated for both upward and downward profiles. Those dissipation data are contained in a structure named diss*, where * indicates the profile number.