Evolution of the Loop Current system during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill event as observed with drifters and satellites

Datasets include satellite-tracked surface drifter trajectories, surface geostrophic velocity derived from the altimetry product, sea surface temperature, ocean color index, and surface oil slick location data in the eastern Gulf of Mexico during summer 2010. Dataset is associated with the publication Liu, Y., R. H. Weisberg, C. Hu, C. Kovach, and R. Riethmüller (2011), Evolution of the Loop Current system during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill event as observed with drifters and satellites.