Selected historical mooring data in the Gulf of Mexico from 1997-03-20 to 2014-06-27

This dataset is selected from existing historical ocean current measurements, mainly from ocean moorings, collected in the Gulf of Mexico between 1997-03-20 and 2014-06-27. Only moorings deployed in more than 1000 m of water are included, with records longer than 100 days and with less than 10% missing data. The dataset is used to investigate subinertial ocean currents and the subinertial modulation of internal waves in the subsurface ocean. The archived data were processed under quality control with a single uniform standard. In particular, unrealistic spikes and clearly bad data that are due to instrument malfunctions have been removed.