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OAS accession Detail for 9200272, meta_version: 9. Current meta_version is: 9
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| Title: | WATER TEMPERATURE and other data from AIRCRAFT in the Gulf of Mexico from 1992-08-07 to 1992-10-11 (NCEI Accession 9200272) |
| Abstract: | The water depth and temperature data were collected in he water depth and temperature data were collected in Gulf of Mexico as part of Louisiana-Texas (LATEX part C) Gulf of Mexico Eddy Circulation Study from aircraft between August 7, 1992 and October 11, 1992. The originator's bathythermograph aerial (AXBT) data containing 67 drops were submitted by Dr. Thomas Berger, Science Applications, Inc. Raleigh NC. The study was supported by grant no MMS 14-35-0001-30633. LATEX is a three-part, $16.2 million federal initiative funded by the U.S. Minerals Management Service (MMS) of the Department of the Interior. The study was conducted to aid MMS in reducing risks associated with oil and gas operations on the continental shelf along the Texas and Louisiana coasts from the mouth of the Mississippi River to the Rio Grande. Begun in September 1991, it was the largest physical oceanography program ever undertaken in the Gulf. The program consists of three major parts: LATEX A, B, and C, conducted by the Texas A&M University System (TAMUS), Louisiana State University (LSU), and Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), respectively. LATEX C was carried out by researchers at SAIC and the University of Colorado. Loop Current eddies, slope eddies, and squirts and jets within the Gulf of Mexico were located and tracked by air-deployed temperature profiling instruments and drifting buoys. Using these data, scientists assessed the impact of these Gulf-wide, circulation features on shelf circulation and identified the processes that interact with the shelf. Data has been processed by NODC to the NODC standard Bathythermograph (XBT Aircraft) (C118) format. The C116/C118 format contains temperature-depth profile data obtained using expendable bathythermograph (XBT) instruments. Cruise information, position, date and time were reported for each observation. The data record was comprised of pairs of temperature-depth values. Unlike the MBT Data File, in which temperature values were recorded at uniform 5 m intervals, the XBT data files contained temperature values at non-uniform depths. These depths were recorded at the minimum number of points ("inflection points") required to accurately define the temperature curve. Standard XBTs can obtain profiles to depths of either 450 or 760 m. With special instruments, measurements can be obtained to 1830 m. Prior to July 1994, XBT data were routinely processed to one of these standard types. XBT data are now processed and loaded directly in to the NODC Ocean Profile Data Base (OPDB). Historic data from these two data types were loaded into the OPDB. |
| Date received: | 19921112 |
| Start date: | 19920807 |
| End date: | 19921011 |
| Seanames: | Gulf of Mexico, North Pacific Ocean |
| West boundary: | -127.67 |
| East boundary: | -89.31 |
| North boundary: | 39.77 |
| South boundary: | 24.5 |
| Observation types: | physical, profile |
| Instrument types: | bathythermograph - AXBT, bathythermograph - BT, bathythermograph - XBT |
| Datatypes: | water depth, WATER TEMPERATURE |
| Submitter: | Berger, Dr. Thomas J. |
| Submitting institution: | Science Applications International Corporation - Raleigh, NC |
| Collecting institutions: | Science Applications International Corporation - Raleigh, NC |
| Contributing projects: | LATEX PART C |
| Platforms: | AIRCRAFT (3191) |
| Number of observations: | |
| Supplementary information: | The publication listed below is related to the data collection and is available from the NOAA Central Library: 1992 Louisiana/Texas Shelf Physical Oceanography Program, Task C - Eddy Circulation Study, NODC Hydrographic Data Submission - INTERIM SUBMISSION. [Raleigh, N.C. : The Corporation?], 1992. Note: Metadata for this accession were 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. To develop more accurate metadata, NCEI reviews metadata for all accessions on an ongoing basis. Points of contact for this data set include: Contact info: Agency: SCIENCE APPLICATIONS, INC. - RALEIGH NC PI: Berger, Dr. Thomas Address: address: 4900 WATERS EDGE DRIVE, SUITE 255 city: RALEIGH state: NC postal: 27606 country: UNITED STATES In this accession, NCEI has archived multiple versions of these data. The latest (and best) version of these data has the largest version number. |
| Availability date: | 19921112 |
| Metadata version: | 9 |
| Keydate: | 2002-11-19 19:40:22+00 |
| Editdate: | 2023-02-15 14:11:24+00 |