Water Temperature, Conductivity, and others collected from RV Walton Smith in Gulf of Mexico from 2012-07-21 to 2012-08-01 (NCEI Accession 0156586)

This dataset contains 43 CTD casts made from the RV Walton Smith in the northern Gulf of Mexico near DeSoto Canyon in July-August 2012 as part of the Grand Lagrangian Deployment (GLAD) experiment. These CTD casts were made to determine the hydrography of the upper water column as one way to characterize the meso- and submesoscale variability in the region where 297 CODE-type ocean drifters were launched in an attempt to measure multi-scale near surface dispersion. The drifters were drogued at 1 meter and most of them were launched in triplets (initially separated by roughly 100 meters). This dataset was created by the Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment (CARTHE). This research was made possible by a grant from BP/The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative.本数据集收录了2012年7至8月期间，在墨西哥湾北部德索托海槽（DeSoto Canyon）附近由沃尔顿·史密斯号科考船（RV Walton Smith）完成的43次温盐深（CTD）剖面测量作业。上述测量作为大拉格朗日部署（Grand Lagrangian Deployment，GLAD）试验的组成部分，旨在通过测定上层水柱的水文特征，表征该区域的中尺度与亚中尺度变率——该区域共投放了297个CODE型海洋漂流浮标，用于观测多尺度近地表弥散过程。该批漂流浮标均系留于1米深度，其中绝大多数以三组为单位投放，初始投放间距约为100米。本数据集由环境碳氢化合物输运高级研究联盟（Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment，CARTHE）编制完成，此项研究得到了英国石油公司（BP）与墨西哥湾研究倡议组织的资助。