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OAS accession Detail for 0098061, meta_version: 1. Current meta_version is: 7
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| Title: | Texas-Louisiana Shelf Circulation and Transport Processes Study on CD-ROM(NODC Accession 0098061) |
| Abstract: | The National Oceanographic Data Center produced a set of LATEX CD-ROMs in cooperation with Texas A&M University (TAMU). The Louisiana - Texas Shelf Physical Oceanography Program (LATEX) was sponsored by the Minerals Management Service (MMS) of the U.S. Department of the Interior. One of its three study units, the Texas-Louisiana Shelf Circulation; Transport Processes Study was conducted by Texas A&M University from April 1992 - December 1994. The study area encompassed the Texas-Louisiana continental shelf offshore of approximately the 10 meter isobath from the Mississippi River to the Rio Grande. The major field components were moored current meter measurements, drifting buoys, hydrography, acoustic Doppler current profiling, meteorological buoys, and MiniSpec directional wave instruments and SeaData non-directional wave instruments. The LATEX data sets have been formally submitted to NODC for archiving and distribution. The LATEX data has been subjected to extensive quality control and quality assurance procedures by TAMU. Several project reports have been compiled for the different data types. The CD-ROMs will contain the data as ASCII text files which includes a metadata file that fully describes the format of each data file. Also included on each CD-ROM are the LATEX Shelf Data Reports in Adobe's portable document format (.pdf). Adobe readers for each computer platform (PC, Mac, UNIX) will be included on the CD-ROMs to read the reports. They can also be viewed with the latest Internet browsers capable of reading pdf files. The data reports provide extensive documentation on the collection and processing of the respective data sets, as well as figures, tables, and other data products. CD-ROM 1 contains moored current meter and meteorological buoy data, CTD data, inverted echo sounder (IES), expendable bathythermograph (XBT), and expendable sound velocity profiler (XSV) data . Meteorological and current meter data reports are included on this disc. CD-ROMs 2 - 4 contain MiniSpec directional wave data and SeaData non-directional wave data from five sites. This is burst data from which all wave information can be derived. The wave data project reports are also included on this disc. CD-ROM 5 contains nine ADCP data sets collected during the hydrography cruises on the NW Gulf of Mexico Shelf, and approximately 1650 CTD casts and associated bottle data. It also has other ancillary data sets such as drifter data, nutrients and pigment data. Final data project reports are included on this disc. |
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| Start date: | 19920401 |
| End date: | 19941201 |
| Seanames: | Gulf of Mexico |
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| Instrument types: | buoy - moored buoy, CTD, current profiler-expendable (XCP), inverted echo sounder (IES), wave gauge - non-directional, XSV |
| Datatypes: | WAVE DATA |
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| Submitting institution: | US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; National Oceanographic Data Center; Ocean Climate Laboratory |
| Collecting institutions: | Texas A&M University; College Station |
| Contributing projects: | LATEX PART A, LATEX PART B |
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| Supplementary information: | The contents of these discs are available as 1) a compressed .tar file via the download data button (download size limit may prevent obtaining all data in one transaction); 2) a complete ISO 9660 disc image, from which an identical replica of the original disc may be burned on new CD/DVD media, by navigating to 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. Please contact NODC.Services@noaa.gov for additional assistance. |
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| Metadata version: | 1 |
| Keydate: | 2012-10-01 18:14:05+00 |
| Editdate: | 2012-10-01 18:42:02+00 |