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Title: WATER DEPTH and Other Data from TONYA AND JOE and Other Platforms from 19780520 to 19790115 (Accession No. - 8000022)
Abstract:
Date received: 19800211
Start date: 19780520
End date: 19790115
Seanames:
West boundary: -91.8
East boundary: -89.5
North boundary: 29.2
South boundary: 28.1
Observation types: benthic, biological, laboratory analyses, physical, profile, surface measurements, visual observation
Instrument types: CTD, current meter, deprecated, hydrometer, laboratory analysis, meteorological sensor, net, photograph, salinometer, Secchi disk, sediment sampler - corer, sediment sampler - grab, thermometer, tide gauge, transmissometer, visual analysis
Datatypes: AIR TEMPERATURE, AIR TEMPERATURE - DRY BULB, AIR TEMPERATURE - WET BULB, BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, BEACH TAR, BEACH TAR - AREA SAMPLED, BEACH TAR - BEACH STATUS, BEACH TAR - INTERTIDAL DISTANCE, BEACH TAR - LENGTH OF SHOREFRONT, BEACH TAR - SEASHORE SURFACE, BEACH TAR - WATERLINE TO SAMPLE DISTANCE, BOTTOM TYPE, CAS (CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS SERVICE) PARAMETER CODES, cloud amount/frequency, cloud types, CONDUCTIVITY, CURRENT DIRECTION, CURRENT SPEED, DISSOLVED OXYGEN, DYNAMIC DEPTH ANOMALY, EFFLUENT - DISCHARGE DESCRIPTION, EFFLUENT - DISCHARGE DISTANCE TO SHORE, EFFLUENT - DISCHARGE IDENTIFIER, EFFLUENT - DISCHARGE POINT, EFFLUENT - DISCHARGE PRIMARY INDUSTRY, EFFLUENT - DISCHARGE QUANTITY, EFFLUENT - ZONE OF INITIAL DILUTION, INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - AGE, INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - DISEASES, INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - FIN ROT, INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - GENERAL HEALTH, INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - LENGTH, INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - LESION- LENGTH, INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - LESION- LOCATION, INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - LESION- ORGAN AFFECTED, INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - LESION- WIDTH, INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - PIGMENTATION, INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - SEX, INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - SEXUAL MATURITY, INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - WEIGHT, NITRATE, OXYGEN, OXYGEN - DISSOLVED GAS, pH, PHOSPHATE - INORGANIC, PHOSPHORUS - TOTAL, PRESSURE - BAROMETRIC, PRESSURE - WATER, SALINITY, SALINITY - BOTTOM WATER, SALINITY - SURFACE WATER, SEA DIRECTION, SEA HEIGHT, SEA STATE, Secchi depth, SEDIMENTS - ORGANIC CARBON, SEDIMENTS - PARTICLE SIZE FRACTIONS, SEDIMENTS - TOTAL CARBON, SIGMA-T, silicate, SOUND VELOCITY, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - ASH-FREE WEIGHT, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - COUNT, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - LIFE STAGE, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - SEX, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - TOTAL WEIGHT, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - WET WEIGHT, SWELL DIRECTION, SWELL HEIGHT, TAXONOMIC CODE, TEMPERATURE - AIR, TEMPERATURE - BOTTOM WATER, TEMPERATURE - SURFACE WATER, TEMPERATURE - WATER, THERMOCLINE DEPTH, TIDE HEIGHT, TIDE STAGE, TRANSMISSIVITY, turbidity, VISIBILITY, WATER COLOR, water depth, WATER TEMPERATURE, WATER TRANSPARENCY, WAVE HEIGHT, WAVE PERIOD, WEATHER, WIND DIRECTION, WIND DIRECTION - PREVAILING, WIND FORCE, WIND SPEED, ZOOPLANKTON BIOMASS
Submitter:
Submitting institution: Southwest Research Institute - Houston
Collecting institutions: Southwest Research Institute - Houston
Contributing projects: OCS-CENTRAL GULF
Platforms: SEA TRANSPORTER (32NF), T-KIP IV (32KP), TONYA AND JOE (328T)
Number of observations:
Supplementary information: 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.

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Points of contact for this data set include:
Contact info:
Agency: SOUTH WEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE - HOUSTON
PI: N/A
Address:
address: NOT AVAILABLE
city: HOUSTON
state: TX
postal: NOT AVAILABLE
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19800211
Metadata version: 0
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:29:10+00
Editdate: 2003-10-24 18:19:22+00