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OAS accession Detail for 9600132, meta_version: 9. Current meta_version is: 13
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| Title: | CURRENT DIRECTION, SALINITY - SURFACE WATER and other data from DRIFTING PLATFORM in the Gulf of Mexico and Coastal Waters of Gulf of Mexico from 1992-08-13 to 1995-08-05 (NCEI Accession 9600132) |
| Abstract: | The water depth and temperature data were collected in Gulf of Mexico as part of Louisiana-Texas (LATEX part C *Lousiana and Texas: LaTex*) Gulf of Mexico Eddy Circulation Study from aircraft between August 13, 1992 and August 5, 1995. The originator's bathythermograph aerial (AXBT) data containing 20 drops and 13,314 (80 characters long) records 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. |
| Date received: | 19960826 |
| Start date: | 19920813 |
| End date: | 19950805 |
| Seanames: | Coastal Waters of Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Mexico |
| West boundary: | -95.303333 |
| East boundary: | -87.248889 |
| North boundary: | 27.410833 |
| South boundary: | 24.643333 |
| Observation types: | current measurements - surface currents, physical, surface measurements, time series |
| Instrument types: | buoy - drifting buoy |
| Datatypes: | AIR TEMPERATURE, BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, CURRENT DIRECTION, CURRENT SPEED, DEPTH - SENSOR, HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE, ICE - MOVEMENT - DIRECTION, ICE - MOVEMENT - SPEED, SALINITY - SURFACE WATER, SEA STATE, SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE, water depth, WAVE HEIGHT, WAVE PERIOD, WIND DIRECTION, WIND SPEED |
| 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: | DRIFTING PLATFORM - DO NOT USE (32DB) |
| Number of observations: | |
| Supplementary information: | These data files are in NODC F156 format. This format is described at http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-Archive/f156.html and the codes used in this format are listed at http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-Archive/f156.txt. 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 |
| Availability date: | 19960826 |
| Metadata version: | 9 |
| Keydate: | 2002-11-19 19:40:22+00 |
| Editdate: | 2020-04-08 18:40:39+00 |