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Published: 1998

Total Pages: 1902

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"The Louisiana-Texas Shelf Physical Oceanography Program (LATEX) was supported by the Minerals Management Service (MMS) of the U.S. Department of the Interior. LATEX was divided into three study units; Study Unit A, 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 included current mooring measurements, drifting buoys, hydrography, acoustic Doppler current profiling, and meteorological measurements over the Texas-Louisiana continental shelf from the Mississippi River to the Rio Grande. The field program began in mid-April 1992 and concluded in early December 1994. This report covers the data collected as part of the hydrography field component. This data report consists of the main volume, which describes the surveys and provides information on the methods used for data collection and processing, and ten appendices that present the survey data graphically. The data shown in this report have been submitted in digital form to the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce; the NODC project number for LATEX A is 0212"--Introduction.