Temporal variability of chlorophyll distribution in the Gulf of Mexico: bio-optical data from profiling floats

Pasqueron de Fommervault, Orens; Perez-Brunius, Paula; Damien, Pierre; Camacho-Ibar, Victor F.; Sheinbaum, Julio

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-5647-2017

Articles | Volume 14, issue 24

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-5647-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-5647-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 24

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15 Dec 2017

Research article |

| 15 Dec 2017

Temporal variability of chlorophyll distribution in the Gulf of Mexico: bio-optical data from profiling floats

Orens Pasqueron de Fommervault, Paula Perez-Brunius, Pierre Damien, Victor F. Camacho-Ibar, and Julio Sheinbaum

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-5647-2017-supplement

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Ocean currents, temperatures, and others measured by drifters and profiling floats for the Lagrangian Approach to Study the Gulf of Mexico Deep Circulation project 2011-07 to 2015-06 (NCEI Accession 0159562), Version 1.1 P. Hamilton and Leidos https://data.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/iso?id=gov.noaa.nodc:159562

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The Gulf of Mexico is known to be characterized by a low abundance in phytoplankton. However, observations across the basin are scarce and prevent an accurate description of the mechanism controlling its distribution and dynamics. The recent deployment of autonomous profiling floats equipped with bio-optical sensors was a great opportunity to explore the phytoplankton in the Gulf Of Mexico. This study presents the analysis of this novel dataset.