Microfiche publication of the Mississippi Delta Bight Studies, Offshore Primary Production (R/E-5), Louisiana Sea Grant Program, was submitted by R.E. Turner and R.L. Allen from Louisiana State University. The Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) data were collected on NOAA Ship OREGON cruises 57, 60, 62 and 64 from March 1975 to February 1976 (Ref. number l01012), and on the EASTWARD cruise E-1-J-77 from April to May 77 (Ref. number l01011) in Gulf of Mexico. The following publications are included: Sea Grant Publication LSU-T-77-003 through LSU-T-77-007.

The water depth and temperature data were collected in Gulf of Mexico as part of Louisiana-Texas (LATEX part C) Gulf of Mexico Eddy Circulation Study from aircraft between October 15, 1994 and November 15, 1994. The originator's bathythermograph aerial (AXBT) and Airborne Expendable Current Profiler (AXCP) data 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.

Sampling of in situ seawater, macroalgae, macrocrustaceans and associated fauna (cruise GoMRI-II, October 17-20 2013, stns 1-18, data available for all) aboard the R/V Pelican cruise id PE14-10b was targeted to repeat sampling of previously studied hard banks and adjacent deep waters west of the mouth of the Mississippi River and extending east to offshore Alabama, an area encompassing roughly 27°58'N to 29°26'N and 87°34'W to 91°01'W. Submitted metadata are ADCP, CTD, Marks and Cruise Track Data.

This dataset contains water temperature, salinity, oxygen, and other parameters collected by CTD from research vessel Pelican in the Gulf of Mexico from 2020-09-25 to 2020-10-04. Hydrographic data were collected on a mid-experiment telemetry cruise from an array of moored instrumentation. These data were collected to calibrate the travel time measurements of the moored current- and pressure-recording inverted echo sounders. The data are in NetCDF format.

Sampling of in situ seawater, macroalgae, macrocrustaceans and associated fauna (cruise GoMRI-II, November 15-17 2012, stns 1-18, data available for all) aboard the R/V Pelican cruise id PE13-14 was targeted to repeat sampling of previously studied hard banks and adjacent deep waters west of the mouth of the Mississippi River and extending east to offshore Alabama, an area encompassing roughly 27°58'N to 29°26'N and 87°34'W to 91°01'W. Submitted metadata are ADCP, CTD, Marks and Cruise Track Data.

Data were collected from 6 component projects from Tomales Bay, California, from 19 March 1987 to 21 September 1996. Data were collected as part of the Land Margin Ecosystem Research (LMER) Project and the Biogeochemical Reactions in Estuaries (BRIE) Project. The component projects were biotic variables in the water column, water composition, dissolved load water composition, particulate load composition, sediment nutrient fluxes, and water temperature with descriptive text.

R/V Pelican: PE14-20 Hydrographic (CTD) Data, Gulf of Mexico (GC600 and AT357), GC600 and AT357. Five conductivity, temperature and depth (CTD) casts made from R/V Pelican in the northern Gulf of Mexico in lease blocs GC600 and AT357 in conjunction with and support of ongoing mooring and deep sea lander experiments.

The Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD); and Transmissivity and Fluorescence data were collected in Gulf of Mexico as part of Texas Institutions Gulf Ecosystem Research (TIGER) project. Data was collected from Ship GYRE cruise 93G12. The data from 15 casts containing 11,448 records was collected over a period spanning from October 28, 1993 and November 3, 1993. Data was submitted in one diskette by Mr. P.V. Pittman, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

This dataset contains water temperature, salinity, oxygen, and other parameters collected by CTD from research vessel Pelican in Gulf of Mexico from 2019-06-14 to 2019-10-03. Hydrographic data were collected on the deployment cruise of an array of moored instrumentation and on a mid-experiment telemetry cruise. These data were collected to calibrate the travel time measurements of the moored current- and pressure-recording inverted echo sounders. Some instrument sites were visited more than once on each cruise. The data are in NetCDF format.

Data has been processed by NODC to the NODC standard Bathythermograph (XBT) (C116) format. The C116/C118 format contains temperature-depth profile data obtained using expendable bathythermograph (XBT) instruments. Cruise information, position, date and time were reported for each observation. The data record was comprised of pairs of temperature-depth values. Unlike the MBT Data File, in which temperature values were recorded at uniform 5 m intervals, the XBT data files contained temperature values at non-uniform depths. These depths were recorded at the minimum number of points ("inflection points") required to accurately define the temperature curve. Standard XBTs can obtain profiles to depths of either 450 or 760 m. With special instruments, measurements can be obtained to 1830 m. Prior to July 1994, XBT data were routinely processed to one of these standard types. XBT data are now processed and loaded directly in to the NODC Ocean Profile Data Base (OPDB). Historic data from these two data types were loaded into the OPDB.