Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Deepwater Horizon Oil SpillHorizon Marine is providing buoy data from the Deepwater Horizon incident area to the public.

Buoy Data

Data Mapper

This webpage provides access to the latest NOAA-AVHRR satellite imagery of the Gulf of Mexico and MMS-NTL Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) sites operating in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. This data is publicly available and a subset of the data used in our operational systems.

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Buoy Information

Far Horizon Drifter Data for the Gulf Stream is now publicly available through the Integrated Ocean Observing System and distributed by the SouthEast U.S. Atlantic Coastal Ocean Observing System (SEACOOS).

FHD Gulf Stream data available at SEACOOS and here.

Historical Data

Horizon Marine database includes over 2200 drifting buoy trajectories and dozens of ADCP surveys. Data from the Gulf of Mexico dates back to 1982 and data from the North Brazil Current and Carribbean dates back to 2000. This data is available. under licence, for use in reasearch projects

Historical Eddy Watch reports are also available.

Please contact us for further information.

Far Horizon Drifters in the Gulf of Mexico

Year Number Deployed Buoy Days
1985 10 643
1986 7 727
1987 2 130
1988 5 435
1989 12 722
1990 17 1793
1991 25 2381
1992 7 695
1993 20 1029
1994 30 1941
1995 47 2659
1996 47 3686
1997 68 4296
1998 130 9385
1999 167 9314
2000 149 10644
2001 188 14884
2002 150 12859
2003 151 11026
2004 175 15515
2005 182 15314
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