Description: Bathymetric contours for the geologic banks in the Gulf of Mexico. Based on data collected during the 1997 Seafloor Mapping Project conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as well as the 2002 survey conducted by Mineral Management Service (MMS), Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS), and USGS.
Copyright Text: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
Description: Bathymetric contours for the geologic banks in the Gulf of Mexico. Based on data collected during the 1997 Seafloor Mapping Project conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as well as the 2002 survey conducted by Mineral Management Service (MMS), Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS), and USGS.
Copyright Text: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
Description: Bathymetric contours for the geologic banks in the Gulf of Mexico. Based on data collected during the 1997 Seafloor Mapping Project conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as well as the 2002 survey conducted by Mineral Management Service (MMS), Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS), and USGS.
Copyright Text: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
Description: Shaded relief for the geologic banks in the Gulf of Mexico. Based on bathmetric data collected during the 1997 Seafloor Mapping Project conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as well as the 2002 survey conducted by Mineral Management Service (MMS), Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS), and USGS.
Copyright Text: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
Description: Monthly mean bottom temperatures were constructed from long-term (2000-2008) ocean simulations using the Gulf of Mexico Modeling System (GOMMS) application of the nested Navy Coastal Ocean Model (NCOM; Martin, 2000). GOMMS was forced using NASA’s Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA) atmospheric products (Rienecker et al., 2011). GOMMS was further constrained by satellite radiometer and altimeter data via NRL’s Modular Ocean Data Assimilation System (MODAS; Fox et al., 2002), which renders three-dimensional temperature fields for the Gulf of Mexico (Jolliff et al., 2008). The global NCOM 1/8 degree resolution model (Kara et al., 2006) provided boundaries to the GOMMS ~ 4 km horizontal resolution Gulf of Mexico model domain (deRada et al., 2009). An inner nest over the outer Texas-Louisiana continental shelf provided finer scale resolution (~ 1000 m). Inner nest model results were interpolated to very fine resolution (~ 5 m) multibeam sonar bathymetry surveys (Gardner et al., 1998; Beaudoin et al., 2002) to construct these bottom products over the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary and adjacent habitats (Jolliff et al., 2010).
Copyright Text: Department of the Navy, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory