gov.noaa.nodc:NODC-LATEX-A eng utf8 series NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information ncei.info@noaa.gov https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact HTTPS NOAA Contact Information Information for contacts at NCEI. information custodian 2026-04-02T17:03:43Z ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) NODC Standard Product: Texas-Louisiana Shelf Circulation and Transport Processes Study, 1992-1994 1998-02-11 publication 2015-07-21 revision 1997 creation NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information gov.noaa.nodc:NODC-LATEX-A NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information ncei.info@noaa.gov https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact HTTPS NCEI Contact Information Information for contacts at NCEI. information publisher Matthew K. Howard Texas A&M University (TAMU) mkhoward@tamu.edu https://www.tamu.edu/ HTTPS Texas A&M University (TAMU) website Institution web page information resourceProvider US National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/ HTTPS US National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) website Institution web page information resourceProvider Texas A&M University (TAMU) https://www.tamu.edu/ HTTPS Texas A&M University (TAMU) website Institution web page information resourceProvider US National Oceanographic Data Center https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/ HTTPS US National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) website Institution web page information author Louisiana State University (LSU) contributor Texas A&M University (TAMU) https://www.tamu.edu/ HTTPS Texas A&M University (TAMU) website Institution web page information contributor tableDigital 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. This dataset is available to the public for a wide variety of uses including scientific research and analysis. completed historicalArchive NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information ncei.info@noaa.gov https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact HTTPS NCEI Contact Information Information for contacts at NCEI. information pointOfContact asNeeded https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/metadata/landing-page/bin/gfx?id=gov.noaa.nodc:NODC-LATEX-A Preview graphic PNG 9700319 9800140 9800141 NCEI ACCESSION NUMBER 1999-07-23 publication AIR TEMPERATURE CONDUCTIVITY CURRENT METER - DIRECTION CURRENT METER - EAST-WEST COMPONENT (U) CURRENT METER - NORTH-SOUTH COMPONENT (V) CURRENT METER - SPEED DISSOLVED OXYGEN HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE NUTRIENTS PIGMENTS SALINITY water depth WATER TEMPERATURE WAVE DATA WAVE DIRECTION - EAST COMPONENT WAVE DIRECTION - NORTH COMPONENT theme NODC DATA TYPES THESAURUS 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 instrument NODC INSTRUMENT TYPES THESAURUS current measurements meteorological physical profile time series theme NODC OBSERVATION TYPES THESAURUS GYRE J. 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POWELL M/V ERICA TIDE SEIS SURVEYOR UNIVERSAL SURVEYOR platform NODC PLATFORM NAMES THESAURUS Louisiana State University Texas A&M University dataCentre NODC COLLECTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS Texas A&M University US National Oceanographic Data Center dataCentre NODC SUBMITTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS TEXAS-LOUISIANA SHELF CIRCULATION AND TRANSPORT PROCESSES STUDY (LATEX PART A) project NODC PROJECT NAMES THESAURUS Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary Gulf of Mexico North Atlantic Ocean place NODC SEA AREA NAMES THESAURUS oceanography theme WMO_CategoryCode 2012-09-15 publication DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce dataCentre Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords 2026 revision 24 Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Greenbelt MD https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords HTTPS GCMD Keyword Forum Page Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. 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URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords information custodian ERICA TIDE (ICES code: 33ET) GYRE (ICES code: 32GY) J. W. POWELL (call sign: WBA4695, ICES code: 32UK) SEIS SURVEYOR (ICES code: 33SS) UNIVERSAL SURVEYOR (ICES code: 33US) platform ICES/SeaDataNet Ship Codes OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF AMERICA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MEXICO place Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords 2026 revision 24 Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Greenbelt MD https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords HTTPS GCMD Keyword Forum Page Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords information custodian accessLevel: public otherRestrictions 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]. 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. 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NCEI launched publicly on April 22, 2015. 2015-04-22T00:00:00 asNeeded Metadata are developed, maintained and distributed by NCEI. Updates are performed as needed to maintain currentness. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information custodian ADCP ADCP Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler The Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) measures currents beneath a ship while underway. Sound signals sent from the moving ship bounce back to receivers aboard the ship. This provides a profile of water movement relative to the ship-precise modern navigation, allowing the ship's motion to be subtracted from the data. These devices are also used on moorings and profilers and, along with acoustic backscattering, measure animal biomass. Particles in the path of the sound waves, mostly plankton, reflect a small part of the sound energy back toward receivers, allowing researchers to make remote estimates of the sizes and numbers of animals present in the water column. Before the 1970's, the most technologically advanced instrument used to measure water velocity was known as a Doppler speed log. This evolved into the first commercial ADCP, produced in the mid-1970's, which used averaging. Later in the 1970's, the first vessel-mounted ADCP was developed to measure water velocity more accurately and to allow measurement in range cells over a depth profile. As instruments evolved, so did new techniques in Doppler signal processing. Initially, Doppler speed logs used simple analog signal processing methods, which are still used in some commercial speed logs today. However, the first ADCPs incorporated analog-to-digital signal conversion over a narrow communication bandwidth. Around 1990, this technique was developed into broadband signal processing. Since then, broadband ADCPs have been able to generate very accurate, real-time velocity measurements. bathythermograph - XBT bathythermograph - XBT eXpendable BathyThermograph bottle bottle any type of water bottle sampling device Generic name for water collection device; usually used to determine temperature, salinity and provide water aliquots for measurement of a wide range of parameters; often referred to by a specific type of water sampling bottle, such as a Nansen or Niskin bottle. buoy - drifting buoy buoy - drifting buoy buoy - drifting buoy buoy - moored buoy buoy - moored buoy a moored buoy does not measure anything. it is a platform for instruments, which do measure things. CTD CTD Conductivity-Temperature-Depth probe current meter current meter current meter current profiler-expendable (XCP) current profiler-expendable (XCP) A profiler which collects current speed, direction and temperature in an ocean column Lockheed Martin, Maritime System and Sensors inverted echo sounder (IES) inverted echo sounder (IES) A ocean bottom-moored instrument that measures the vertical acoustical travel time round-trip from the sea floor to the sea surface and back. meteorological sensor meteorological sensor Any meteorological sensor, but also see specific instruments such as aerovane, anemometer, etc. Secchi disk Secchi disk The Secchi disk (or Secchi disc), as created in 1865 by Angelo Secchi, is a plain white, circular disk 30 cm (12 in) in diameter used to measure water transparency or turbidity in bodies of water. The disc is mounted on a pole or line, and lowered slowly down in the water. The depth at which the disk is no longer visible is taken as a measure of the transparency of the water. This measure is known as the Secchi depth and is related to water turbidity. [Wikipedia, 2021-09-02] thermosalinograph thermosalinograph automated sea surface temperature and salinity instrument, usually attached to the hull of a ship Thermosalinograph is an automated Sea Surface Temperature and Salinity measurement system making measurement on board a ship using a water intake. [https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/tsg/about.php 2021-01-29] tide gauge tide gauge a device to measure the tidal height XSV XSV eXpendable Sound Velocity probe GYRE Flag: United States Vessel Type: Oceanographic Research IMO: 7318999 DOB: 1973-10 J. W. POWELL WBA4695 USGS owned M/V ERICA TIDE prefix (M/V) SEIS SURVEYOR vessel used in LATEX-A UNIVERSAL SURVEYOR vessel used in LATEX-A