ROcD-nGoM: A River–Ocean Database for the Northern Gulf of Mexico

River chemistry and discharge for 54 waterways entering the northern Gulf of Mexico, combined with 17 chemical and physical ocean parameters.
River
Hydrogeochemistry
Surface Water
Ocean
Gulf of Mexico
Published

November 17, 2023

Map of river monitoring sites from Texas to Florida around the northern Gulf of Mexico, grouped into western sites in blue, northern sites in green, and eastern sites in pink.

River monitoring sites around the northern Gulf of Mexico, grouped into western, northern, and eastern locations.

This GRID project output connects river and ocean information for the northern Gulf of Mexico. It includes river chemistry and discharge for 54 rivers, streams, and bayous, together with 17 chemical and physical ocean parameters from the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System and MODIS and SeaWiFS satellite sensors.

The release distinguishes river observations from daily concentrations and fluxes estimated using the USGS WRTDS model. It provides data with outlier flags and cleaned monthly, seasonal, and annual aggregates. Consult the documentation for the sampling coverage and processing applied to each parameter.

Access and scope

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Release detail Information
Repository creators Bailey Armos and Shuang Zhang
Dataset release November 17, 2023
Release DOI 10.5281/zenodo.10152141
Files ROcD-nGoM.zip, approximately 2.3 GB; includes the river-processing R script
Repository license CC BY 4.0

This is a regional product with defined source coverage, rather than an archive of all analyses conducted in the Gulf of Mexico. The repository release predates the associated article.

Citation and associated article

Dataset: Armos, B., and Zhang, S. (2023). ROcD-nGoM: A River-Ocean Coupled Database for the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10152141.

Article: Armos, B., Zhang, S., Wen, T., Walker, E., and Daripa, P. (2024). A harmonized river-ocean coupled database for the northern Gulf of Mexico. Scientific Data. Published December 30, 2024. Read the data descriptor.

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