An Empirically Validated Method for Characterizing Pelagic Habitats in the Gulf of Mexico Using Ocean Model Data

Funding

This research was made possible by a grant from The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative. Data are publicly available through the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information & Data Cooperative (GRIIDC) at https://data.gulfresearchinitiative.org (doi:10.7266/N7QR4VK0; doi:10.7266/N73R0QSX; doi:10.7266/N7PV6HS1; doi: 10.7266/N7R49P43; doi: 10.7266/N7MC8XDC). We acknowledge the use of imagery from the NASA Worldview application (https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/) operated by the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) project. We also thank Nina Pruzinsky for her insight and contributions to the final version of this paper.