A gridded surface current product for the Gulf of Mexico from consolidated  drifter measurements

Lilly, Jonathan M.; Pérez-Brunius, Paula

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-645-2021

Articles | Volume 13, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-645-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-645-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 2

Data description paper

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25 Feb 2021

Data description paper |

| 25 Feb 2021

A gridded surface current product for the Gulf of Mexico from consolidated drifter measurements

Jonathan M. Lilly and Paula Pérez-Brunius

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Final revised paper (published on 25 Feb 2021)
Preprint (discussion started on 15 Oct 2020)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of Lilly and Perez-Brunius manuscript', Anonymous Referee #1, 20 Oct 2020
- AC1: 'Reply to Reviewer 1', Jonathan Lilly, 06 Jan 2021
RC2: 'Review of 'A gridded surface current product for the Gulf of Mexico from consolidated drifter measurements'', Anonymous Referee #2, 11 Nov 2020
- AC2: 'Reply to Reviewer 2', Jonathan Lilly, 06 Jan 2021

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Jonathan Lilly on behalf of the Authors (06 Jan 2021)

ED: Publish as is (13 Jan 2021) by Giuseppe M.R. Manzella

AR by Jonathan Lilly on behalf of the Authors (13 Jan 2021) Manuscript

Short summary

A large set of historical surface drifter data from the Gulf of Mexico are processed and assimilated into a spatially and temporally gridded dataset called GulfFlow, forming a significant resource for studying the circulation and variability in this important region. The uniformly processed historical drifter data interpolated to hourly resolution from all publicly available sources are also distributed in a separate product. A greatly improved map of the mean circulation is presented.