Circulation on the continental shelf between 87 deg W and 90 deg W with data appendix. Final report, volume 1
Knowledge of the circulation of waters over the continental shelf and slope between 87 deg W and 90 deg W longitude is essential for judicious management of the region`s living and mineral resources and related industrial activities. This region, an integral part of the Fertile Fisheries Crescent, has been in a state of on-going development by the oil and gas industry for over four decades. The increase in activities of all types on the shelf, e.g., offshore oil and gas, maritime commerce, and fisheries, with the inherent risks each imposes on the environment, underscores the need for better knowledge of the region`s hydrodynamics, biology, chemistry, and geology. Prior to planning and initiating any further physical oceanography studies which require taking additional measurements in this region, the authors believe it prudent to first extract whatever relevant information remains in existing data. This effort entailed the laborious recovery of oceanographic data at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, which was in a number of disparate forms and formats.
- Research Organization:
- Gulf Coast Research Lab., Ocean Springs, MS (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 63799
- Report Number(s):
- PB-95-201802/XAB; TRN: 51571538
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: Aug 1994
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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