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NODC Standard Product: Texas-Louisiana Shelf Circulation and Transport Processes Study, 1992-1994

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This collection includes data that was collected by Texas A&M University (TAMU) as part of the Texas-Louisiana Shelf Circulation and Transport Processes Study (LATEX A), and was included in a set of NODC Standard Product CD-ROMs. This collection includes MiniSpec directional wave data, SeaData non-directional wave data, current direction/velocity, water temperature, air temperature, salinity, hydrographic, ADCP, drifting buoy, and expendable probe data, as well as project reports.

The Louisiana-Texas Shelf Physical Oceanography Program (LATEX) was sponsored by the Minerals Management Service (MMS) of the U.S. Department of the Interior. Of its three study units, the Texas-Louisiana Shelf Circulation and Transport Processes Study (LATEX A or LATEX Shelf) was conducted by the Texas A&M University System. The LATEX A field program ran from April 1992 to December 1994. The study area encompassed the Texas-Louisiana continental shelf offshore of approximately the 10-m isobath, from the Mississippi River to the Rio Grande. The five major field components were: moored current meter measurements, drifting buoys, hydrography, acoustic Doppler current profiling (ADCP), and meteorological buoys.
  • Cite as: US National Oceanographic Data Center (1998). NODC Standard Product: Texas-Louisiana Shelf Circulation and Transport Processes Study, 1992-1994. [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/NODC-LATEX-A. Accessed [date].
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Distribution Formats
  • CD-ROM
    • File Specification: ISO 9660
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Distributor NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
+1-301-713-3277
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Dataset Point of Contact NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
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Time Period 1992-04-01 to 1994-12-31
Spatial Bounding Box Coordinates
West: -97.312
East: -43.144
South: 20.838
North: 43.822
Spatial Coverage Map
General Documentation
Publication Dates
  • publication: 1998-02-11
  • revision: 2015-07-21
  • creation: 1997
Data Presentation Form Digital table - digital representation of facts or figures systematically displayed, especially in columns
Dataset Progress Status Complete - production of the data has been completed
Historical archive - data has been stored in an offline storage facility
Data Update Frequency As needed
Supplemental Information
The contents of these discs are available as 1) a compressed .tar file; 2) complete ISO 9660 disc images, identical replicas of the original discs, in the .iso file in the data/0-data/disc_image/ subdirectory; 3) individual files, by navigating to specific file(s) in the data/0-data/disc_contents/ subdirectory.

Software that was developed or provided with this NODC Standard Product may be included in the disc_image/ directory as part of the disc image, but all software that was developed or provided with this NODC Standard Product has been excluded from the disc_contents/ directory.

Note: Preliminary metadata for this dataset was extracted from a legacy database maintained by the U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). The design of the database did not exactly reflect the FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM).

Principal Investigator (PI) and organization contact information accurately represents all available information from the legacy database at the time that this description was created. However, proper attribution of a PI to a specific institution or the role (submitting or collecting) taken by an institution may not be correct due to inexact mapping between fields in the legacy database and the CSDGM. Due to this uncertainty, the contact information was initially recorded in the Supplemental Information element of the CSDGM description.

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Purpose This dataset is available to the public for a wide variety of uses including scientific research and analysis.
Use Limitations
  • accessLevel: Public
  • Distribution liability: NOAA and NCEI make no warranty, expressed or implied, regarding these data, nor does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty. NOAA and NCEI cannot assume liability for any damages caused by any errors or omissions in these data. If appropriate, NCEI can only certify that the data it distributes are an authentic copy of the records that were accepted for inclusion in the NCEI archives.
Dataset Citation
  • Cite as: US National Oceanographic Data Center (1998). NODC Standard Product: Texas-Louisiana Shelf Circulation and Transport Processes Study, 1992-1994. [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/NODC-LATEX-A. Accessed [date].
Cited Authors
Contributors
Resource Providers
Publishers
Theme keywords NODC DATA TYPES THESAURUS NODC OBSERVATION TYPES THESAURUS WMO_CategoryCode
  • oceanography
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
Data Center keywords NODC COLLECTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS NODC SUBMITTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords
Platform keywords NODC PLATFORM NAMES THESAURUS Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Platform Keywords ICES/SeaDataNet Ship Codes
Instrument keywords NODC INSTRUMENT TYPES THESAURUS Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Instrument Keywords
Place keywords NODC SEA AREA NAMES THESAURUS Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords
Project keywords NODC PROJECT NAMES THESAURUS Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Project Keywords
Keywords NCEI ACCESSION NUMBER
Use Constraints
  • Cite as: US National Oceanographic Data Center (1998). NODC Standard Product: Texas-Louisiana Shelf Circulation and Transport Processes Study, 1992-1994. [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/NODC-LATEX-A. Accessed [date].
Access Constraints
  • Use liability: NOAA and NCEI cannot provide any warranty as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of furnished data. Users assume responsibility to determine the usability of these data. The user is responsible for the results of any application of this data for other than its intended purpose.
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Processing Steps
  • 2002-11-19T19:40:22Z - NCEI Accession 9700319 v1.1 was published.
  • 2002-11-19T19:40:22Z - NCEI Accession 9800141 v1.1 was published.
  • 2013-03-19T21:02:08Z - NCEI Accession 9700319 was revised and v1.2 was published.
  • 2013-03-19T22:04:18Z - NCEI Accession 9800141 was revised and v1.2 was published.
  • 2013-08-30T19:38:54Z - NCEI Accession 9800140 v1.1 was published.
  • 2015-07-21T23:36:41Z - NCEI Accession 9700319 was revised and v2.3 was published.
Lineage information for: repository
Processing Steps
  • 2015-04-22T00:00:00 - NOAA created the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) by merging NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), and National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), including the National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC), per the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, Public Law 113-235. NCEI launched publicly on April 22, 2015.
Acquisition Information (collection)
Instrument
  • ADCP
  • bathythermograph - XBT
  • bottle
  • buoy - drifting buoy
  • buoy - moored buoy
  • CTD
  • current meter
  • current profiler-expendable (XCP)
  • inverted echo sounder (IES)
  • meteorological sensor
  • Secchi disk
  • thermosalinograph
  • tide gauge
  • XSV
Platform
  • GYRE
  • J. W. POWELL
  • M/V ERICA TIDE
  • SEIS SURVEYOR
  • UNIVERSAL SURVEYOR
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