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 (NODC Accession 9600132)

• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: NOAA NCEI Environmental Data Archive 2017
• Subjects: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; 9600132; 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; buoy - drifting buoy; current measurements - surface currents; physical; surface measurements; time series; DRIFTING PLATFORM; Science Applications International Corporation - Raleigh, NC; Louisiana-Texas GULF OF MEXICO EDDY CIRCULATION STUDY (LATEX PART C); Coastal Waters of Gulf of Mexico; Gulf of Mexico; oceanography; LATEX > Louisiana-Texas Shelf Physical Oceanography Program; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED/WIND DIRECTION; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION > OCEAN CURRENTS; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN PRESSURE > WATER PRESSURE; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > WAVE HEIGHT; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > WAVE PERIOD; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > SEA ICE MOTION; BUOYS; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MEXICO; Raleigh; North Atlantic; Sea ice
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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.