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GLAD experiment CODE-style drifter trajectories (low-pass filtered, 15 minute interval records), northern Gulf of Mexico near DeSoto Canyon, July-October 2012

Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment (CARTHE)

DOI:
10.7266/N7VD6WC8
 
UDI:
R1.x134.073:0004		 Last Update:
Nov 06 2015 16:30 UTC
 
Dataset Author(s):
Özgökmen, Tamay		 Point of Contact:
Haus, Brian
University of Miami / Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
4600 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, Florida  33149
USA
bhaus@rsmas.miami.edu
Funding Source:
RFP-I
Data Collection Period:
2012-07-20 to 2012-10-22

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Abstract:

297 trajectories from near-surface CODE-type ocean drifters (drogued at a depth of one meter) tracked in real-time using SPOT GPS units, launched in the northern Gulf of Mexico near DeSoto Canyon in July 2012 as part of the CARTHE Grand Lagrangian Deployment (GLAD) experiment. Most of these drifters were launched as triplets (separated by roughly 100 meters at launch) in an attempt to measure multi-scale near surface dispersion. Positions are low-pass filtered (one hour cutoff period) and interpolated to uniform 15 minute intervals starting on whole hours over the period July 20 through October 22, 2012. No temperature or salinity sensors were attached to these drifters. 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.

Purpose:

Triads of CODE style drifters (initially separated by roughly 100 meteres) were launched nearly simultaneously to measure near-surface relative dispersion over scales ranging from 100 meters to 100 km.

Theme Keywords:

drifters, dispersion, submesoscale, surface transport, CODE drifter, drifter, transport, oil spill, trajectories

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GLAD experiment CODE-style drifter trajectories (low-pass filtered, 15 minute interval records), northern Gulf of Mexico near DeSoto Canyon, July-October 2012



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          Title: 
              GLAD experiment CODE-style drifter trajectories (low-pass filtered, 15 minute interval records), northern 
              Gulf of Mexico near DeSoto Canyon, July-October 2012
          Alternate title: 
              GLAD experiment CODE-style drifter trajectories (low-pass filtered, 15 minute interval records)
          Date: 
            Date: 
              Date: 
                  2013-08-21
              Date type: 
                Date type code: 
                  publication
      Abstract: 
          297 trajectories from near-surface CODE-type ocean drifters (drogued at a depth of one meter) tracked in 
          real-time using SPOT GPS units, launched in the northern Gulf of Mexico near DeSoto Canyon in July 2012 as 
          part of the CARTHE Grand Lagrangian Deployment (GLAD) experiment. Most of these drifters were launched as 
          triplets (separated by roughly 100 meters at launch) in an attempt to measure multi-scale near surface 
          dispersion. Positions are low-pass filtered (one hour cutoff period) and interpolated to uniform 15 minute 
          intervals starting on whole hours over the period July 20 through October 22, 2012. No temperature or 
          salinity sensors were attached to these drifters. 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.
      Purpose: 
          Triads of CODE style drifters (initially separated by roughly 100 meteres) were launched nearly simultaneously 
          to measure near-surface relative dispersion over scales ranging from 100 meters to 100 km.
      Status: 
        Progress code: 
          completed
      Point of contact: 
        Responsible party: 
          Individual name: 
              Brian Haus
          Organisation name: 
              University of Miami
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              Professor
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                      4600 Rickenbacker Causeway
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                      Miami
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                      Florida
                  Postal code: 
                      33149
                  Country: 
                      USA
                  Electronic mail address: 
                      bhaus@rsmas.miami.edu
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              drifters
          Keyword: 
              dispersion
          Keyword: 
              submesoscale
          Keyword: 
              surface transport
          Keyword: 
              CODE drifter
          Keyword: 
              drifter
          Keyword: 
              transport
          Keyword: 
              oil spill
          Keyword: 
              trajectories
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              Gulf of Mexico
          Keyword: 
              De Soto Canyon
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                    ground condition
                  Begin date: 
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                  End date: 
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      Supplemental Information: 
          Column 1: drifter ID string (like CARTHE_XXX, XXX=3 digit integer) Column 2: date (yyyy-mm-dd) Column 3: time 
          (HH:MM:SS.SS) Column 4: latitude (decimal degrees) Column 5: longitude (decimal degrees) Column 6: estimated 
          position error (meters) Column 7: u (east-west) velocity (m/sec) Column 8: v (north-south) velocity (m/sec) 
          Column 9: estimated velocity error (m/sec) |GLAD CODE drifter positions were reported in real-time roughly 
          every five minutes via the Globalstar satellite network. Positions reported by the SPOT handheld GPS units 
          inside each drifter were nominally accurate to within seven meters. Occasionally, position errors much 
          larger than this nominal value are found. These may be due to errors in GPS baselines (due to poor satellite 
          reception), data dropout, and, in some cases, drifters that were picked up by small boats. Each drifter 
          record ends when the drifter was known to be picked up by a boat, when the signal was lost for more than 24 
          hours, or when the drifter traveled more than 80 km in a 12 hours period (implying a mean speed of 1.85 
          m/sec over 12 hours). For each record, positions that imply an instantaneous drifter speed greater than 3 
          m/sec were deleted. Also, positions that imply the drifter track rotated through more than 360 compass 
          degrees within three hours were deleted. Next, outliers were identified as positions that were more than 100 
          meters away from estimated positions at the same times interpolated from a set of both past and future 
          positions. These outliers were deleted. All valid positions were then interpolated to uniform, five-minute 
          time intervals using spline interpolation. These five-minute records were used to compute finite difference 
          estimates of u (east-west) and v (north-south) velocities. Finally, the five-minute position and velocity 
          records were filtered using a Butterworth fourth-order low-pass filter with a one hour period cutoff. These 
          low-pass filtered records were then interpolated to uniform 15-minute intervals beginning on whole hours. 
          Crude estimates of position error are also provided for each position in the final 15-minute interval 
          records. The error was set to 10 meters (a nominal value) for positions recorded at times for which there 
          were no gaps in the five-minute raw data records over the previous hour. The error was increased according 
          to the ratio of the average sample time interval for the previous 12 raw data positions to the nominal 
          sample interval of 5 minutes, multiplied by the 10 meter nominal error value. Velocity errors were computed 
          by dividing the sum of two consecutive position errors by the corresponding time interval.|CODE II drifter 
          body with SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger (orange).|Raw drifter positions were low-pass filtered (one hour 
          cutoff period) and interpolated to uniform 15 minute intervals starting on whole hours.||

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                  Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information and Data Cooperative (GRIIDC)
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                          USA
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Publications:

Berta, M., Griffa, A., Magaldi, M. G., Özgökmen, T. M., Poje, A. C., Haza, A. C., & Olascoaga, M. J. (2012). Improved Surface Velocity and Trajectory Estimates in the Gulf of Mexico from Blended Satellite Altimetry and Drifter Data. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 150904105051007. doi:10.1175/jtech-d-14-00226.1

Carrier, M. J., Ngodock, H., Smith, S., Jacobs, G., Muscarella, P., Ozgokmen, T., … Lipphardt, B. (2014). Impact of Assimilating Ocean Velocity Observations Inferred from Lagrangian Drifter Data Using the NCOM-4DVAR*. Monthly Weather Review, 142(4), 1509–1524. doi:10.1175/mwr-d-13-00236.1

Coelho, E. F., Hogan, P., Jacobs, G., Thoppil, P., Huntley, H. S., Haus, B. K., … Wei, M. (2015). Ocean current estimation using a Multi-Model Ensemble Kalman Filter during the Grand Lagrangian Deployment experiment (GLAD). Ocean Modelling, 87, 86–106. doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2014.11.001

Jacobs, G. A., Bartels, B. P., Bogucki, D. J., Beron-Vera, F. J., Chen, S. S., Coelho, E. F., … Wei, M. (2014). Data assimilation considerations for improved ocean predictability during the Gulf of Mexico Grand Lagrangian Deployment (GLAD). Ocean Modelling, 83, 98–117. doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2014.09.003

Muscarella, P., Carrier, M. J., Ngodock, H., Smith, S., Lipphardt, B. L., Kirwan, A. D., & Huntley, H. S. (2015). Do Assimilated Drifter Velocities Improve Lagrangian Predictability in an Operational Ocean Model? Monthly Weather Review, 143(5), 1822–1832. doi:10.1175/mwr-d-14-00164.1

Olascoaga, M. J., Beron-Vera, F. J., Haller, G., Triñanes, J., Iskandarani, M., Coelho, E. F., … Valle-Levinson, A. (2013). Drifter motion in the Gulf of Mexico constrained by altimetric Lagrangian coherent structures. Geophysical Research Letters, 40(23), 6171–6175. doi:10.1002/2013gl058624

Poje, A. C., Ozgokmen, T. M., Lipphardt, B. L., Haus, B. K., Ryan, E. H., Haza, A. C., … Mariano, A. J. (2014). Submesoscale dispersion in the vicinity of the Deepwater Horizon spill. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(35), 12693–12698. doi:10.1073/pnas.1402452111

Yaremchuk, M., & Coelho, E. F. (2015). Filtering Drifter Trajectories Sampled at Submesoscale Resolution. IEEE J. Oceanic Eng., 40(3), 497–505. doi:10.1109/joe.2014.2353472

Curcic, M., Chen, S. S., & Özgökmen, T. M. (2016). Hurricane-induced ocean waves and stokes drift and their impacts on surface transport and dispersion in the Gulf of Mexico. Geophysical Research Letters, 43(6), 2773–2781. doi:10.1002/2015gl067619

Mariano, A. J., Ryan, E. H., Huntley, H. S., Laurindo, L. C., Coelho, E., Griffa, A., … Wei, M. (2016). Statistical properties of the surface velocity field in the northern Gulf of Mexico sampled by GLAD drifters. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 121(7), 5193–5216. doi:10.1002/2015jc011569

Beron-Vera, F. J., & LaCasce, J. H. (2016). Statistics of Simulated and Observed Pair Separations in the Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 46(7), 2183–2199. doi:10.1175/jpo-d-15-0127.1

Berta, M., Griffa, A., Özgökmen, T. M., & Poje, A. C. (2016). Submesoscale evolution of surface drifter triads in the Gulf of Mexico. Geophysical Research Letters, 43(22), 11,751–11,759. doi:10.1002/2016gl070357

Miron, P., Beron-Vera, F. J., Olascoaga, M. J., Sheinbaum, J., Pérez-Brunius, P., & Froyland, G. (2017). Lagrangian dynamical geography of the Gulf of Mexico. Scientific Reports, 7(1). doi:10.1038/s41598-017-07177-w

Duran, R., Beron-Vera, F. J., & Olascoaga, M. J. (2018). Extracting quasi-steady Lagrangian transport patterns from the ocean circulation: An application to the Gulf of Mexico. Scientific Reports, 8(1). doi:10.1038/s41598-018-23121-y