The GUMSHOE study is the definitive meteorological and oceanographic database for design of offshore structures in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. This JIP (Joint Industry Project) hindcast a population of 100 historical hurricanes to produce time histories of surface wind speed, two dimensional wave spectrum, storm surge and vertically averaged current on a 12 Nmi grid covering the entire Gulf of Mexico.

This follow-on study, GUMSHOE2, follows the same methodology as GUMSHOE but is available on a higher-resolution 2 Nmi grid in the Mississippi Delta.

• Grid PDF File (345K)
• Comma-Delimited Grid File (12K zipped)

• GUMSHOE (Gulf of Mexico Hurricane Extremes)
• WINX (Gulf Winter Extremes)
• GOMOS (Operational Data)
• GROW (Global)
• OSMOSIS (Display Software)

Joining the GUMSHOE2 JIP provides the operator with access to the full GUMSHOE2 database at all archived grid points. Return period extremes (both site specific and site-averaged) have been analyzed between 10 and 200 years for significant wave height, maximum individual wave height, maximum crest height, wind speed, storm surge height and depth-averaged current speed. Also provided are correlations between peak spectral wave period, wind speed, current component in-line with the wave direction, and peak significant wave height. A full report describing the GUMSHOE2 methodology and copies of all output statistics are included as well.