Current direction and bathythermograph (xbt) data from moored current meter casts and other instruments in the Gulf of Mexico, Northwest Atlantic Ocean, and North American Coastline-South as part the North Carolina Frontal Eddy Dynamics Experiment (FRED) project, 1985-01-23 to 1987-01-31 (NCEI Accession 8900214)

The publication(s) listed below are related to the data collection and may or may not be available from the NOAA Central Library:

1989 Gulf of Mexico Physical Oceanography Program, Program Year 4 - Eastern Gulf --Current Meter Observations (Part 1) [Raleigh, N.C. : The Corporation?], 1989.

1989 Gulf of Mexico Physical Oceanography Program, Program Year 4 - Eastern Gulf-Current Meter Observations (Part 2). [Raleigh, N.C. : The Corporation?], 1989.

1989 Gulf of Mexico Physical Oceanography Program, Program Year 4 - Eastern Gulf - Associated SOOP Cruise Data. [Raleigh, N.C. : The Corporation?], 1989.

OCS 1985 Proceedings- Sixth Annual Gulf of Mexico Information Transfer Meeting. Dept of Interior, Minerals Management Services.

Original Abstract: This accession contains temperature data collected during the North
Carolina Frontal Eddy Dynamics Experiment (FRED) by Evans-Hamilton Inc.
in May 1987. This project was funded by MMS contracts Nos:
14-12-0001-29158 and 14-12-0001-303449. The data was submitted by Dr.
Evans Waddell of Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC). Five
moorings (C-1, C-3, D-3, E-2, G) were deployed in the Gulf of Mexico
from January 1985 to February 1986 as part of the MMS Gulf of Mexico
Physical Oceanography Program (year 4). These data were merged with the
current meter data (Reference number: TV4191-3633). This dataset can be
found under reference numbers L00409-L00417. It should be noted that the
temperature data is not an exact match to the current meter data. The
data are in F015 format. Other data included are in the C116
Bathythermograph XBT format of NODC.

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 dataset include:
Contact info:
Agency: SCIENCE APPLICATIONS, INC. - RALEIGH NC
PI: Waddell, Dr. Evans
Address:
address: 4900 WATERS EDGE DRIVE, SUITE 255
city: RALEIGH
state: NC
postal: 27606
country: UNITED STATES

In this accession, NCEI has archived multiple versions of these data. The latest (and best) version of these data has the largest version number.