Near-realtime oceanographic profile data collected by CTD's and XBT's aboard NOAA Ship Nancy Foster from 2010-07-01 to 2010-07-18 as part of the GTSPP in response to the 20100420 Deepwater Horizon oil spill event (NCEI Accession 0065729)

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Data products and in situ oceanographic data collected in response to the Deepwater Horizon Event in the Gulf of Mexico (May 2010). The Global Temperature and Salinity Profile Programme (GTSPP) received the near-realtime data as Bathy and Tesac messages from the Global Telecommunication System (GTS). The data are available in three formats, CSV (comma separated value), NetCDF (network common data form) and the GTSPP ASCII formats. An inventory file is available, including plots of each vertical profile. A .kml file is available for Google Earth display.

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describedByType	application/octet-steam
identifier	gov.noaa.nodc:0065729
issued	2010-07-16T00:00:00.000+00:00
landingPage	https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
language	[]
references	[ "https://discover.library.noaa.gov/permalink/01NOAA_INST/1qbesct/alma991000864569707381", "https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0065140" ]
rights	otherRestrictions
spatial	-81.997,23.287,-88.451,29.999
temporal	2010-07-01T00:00:00+00:00/2010-07-18T00:00:00+00:00