Dynamic anomaly of bio-optical and physical environmental properties (DAP) in the Gulf of Mexico, April-August 2016

Anomaly data is a product generated in the Ocean Weather Lab using Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) satellite and American Seas (AMSEAS) model parameters to detect anomalous conditions in the Gulf of Mexico. This subset was presented at the SPIE conference in Anaheim, CA in 2017. Anomaly fields are created using the difference between the week of interest and the previous 8-week mean (with a 2 week lag). Masks of standard deviation are also provided to mute variability within chosen degrees of standard deviation. The data are supplied as zipped kmz files for use in Google Earth. Each kmz provided contains a kml (location file) and a png (image file). Similar data from June-August 2015 can be found in dataset R4.x260.000:0053.