DWDE drifters: Trajectories of surface drifters in the western Gulf of Mexico from the Deep-Water Dispersion Experiment

This dataset is comprised of the final processed data collected by 207 surface drifters deployed in the western Gulf of Mexico during the Deep Water Dispersion Experiment (DWDE), as part of the project “Implementación de redes de observación oceanográficas (físicas geoquímicas, ecológicas) para la generación de escenarios ante posibles contingencias relacionadas a la exploración y producción de hidrocarburos en aguas profundas del Golfo de México” of the Gulf de Mexico Research Consortium (CIGoM), funded by CONACYT‐SENER‐Hydrocarbon Fund, Mexico”. The DWDE drifter data is also made available with the GulfDriftersWithDWDE dataset (http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3985916), which is a merged and uniformly processed surface drifter dataset which includes publicly available data from several different drifter experiments. These latter database is the basis for the gridded product GulfFlow (http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3978793). See Lilly and Pérez-Brunius (2021) "A gridded surface current product for the Gulf of Mexico from consolidated drifter measurements" for details. García Carrillo, P., Ronquillo Méndez, A., Rodríguez Outerelo, J., Pérez Brunius, P. 2018. Experimento de Dispersión en Aguas Profundas ( DWDE ). Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Baja California. 253 pp. Pérez-Brunius P., P. García Carrillo, A. Ronquillo Méndez, J. Rodríguez Outerelo, A. Sandoval Rangel, C. Liera Grijalva, X. Flores Vidal (2019). Trayectorias de Derivadores Superficiales en el Oeste del Golfo de México del Experimento de Dispersión en Aguas Profundas. Reg. INDAUTOR, México (03-2019- 120510255600-01, 13 December 2019).本数据集由深水扩散实验（Deep Water Dispersion Experiment, DWDE）期间在墨西哥湾西部部署的207个表层漂流浮标采集的最终处理后数据组成。该数据隶属于墨西哥湾研究联盟（Gulf of Mexico Research Consortium, CIGoM）的资助项目——"面向墨西哥湾深水油气勘探与生产潜在突发事故场景构建的海洋观测网（物理、地球化学、生态）构建实施"，该项目由墨西哥CONACYT‐SENER油气基金资助。 DWDE漂流浮标数据已与GulfDriftersWithDWDE数据集（http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3985916）同步公开，该数据集为经合并与统一处理的表层漂流浮标数据集，涵盖多组不同浮标实验的公开观测数据。 上述数据集亦是网格化产品GulfFlow（http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3978793）的构建基础。详细技术细节可参考Lilly与Pérez-Brunius（2021）发表的论文《基于整合漂流浮标观测的墨西哥湾网格化表层流产品》（A gridded surface current product for the Gulf of Mexico from consolidated drifter measurements）。 相关参考文献如下： 1. García Carrillo, P., Ronquillo Méndez, A., Rodríguez Outerelo, J., Pérez Brunius, P. 2018. 深水扩散实验（DWDE）. 下加利福尼亚州恩塞纳达科学研究与高等教育中心. 共253页。 2. Pérez-Brunius P., P. García Carrillo, A. Ronquillo Méndez, J. Rodríguez Outerelo, A. Sandoval Rangel, C. Liera Grijalva, X. Flores Vidal (2019). 深水扩散实验墨西哥湾西部表层漂流浮标轨迹. 墨西哥INDAUTOR区域（登记号：03-2019-120510255600-01，发布日期：2019年12月13日）。