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On the hydrography of shelf waters off the central Texas gulf coast

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Date Issued:
1980
Title: On the hydrography of shelf waters off the central Texas gulf coast.
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Name(s): Smith, Ned P., creator
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Article
Issuance: single unit
Date Issued: 1980
Publisher: American Meteorological Society (AMS)
Extent: 9 p.
Physical Description: pdf
Language(s): English
Identifier: 3321406 (digitool), FADT3321406 (IID), fau:6070 (fedora)
Note(s): Temperature and salinity data from 1976 and 1977 are used to describe low-frequency hydrographic variations in Gulf of Mexico shelf waters off the central Texas coast. Data from 23 approximately monthly cruises define the annual cycle and suggest annually recurring seasonal events. Minimum salinities occur in late spring, when values decrease to as low as 18% over the inner shelf. Inner shelf salinities during the rest of the year average 31-32%. Surface salinities over the outer shelf may decrease to 32-33% in late spring, but deviate little from 36% at other times.
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This is the final published version of an article available at http://journals.ametsoc.org/ and may be cited as: Smith, N. P. (1980). On the hydrography of shelf waters off the central Texas gulf coast. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 10(5), 806-813. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1980)010<0806:OTHOSW>2.0.CO;2
Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #176.
Subject(s): Hydrography--Gulf Coast (U.S.)
Continental shelf--Gulf Coast (U.S.)
Salinity
Water temperature
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Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0485(1980)010<0806:OTHOSW>2.0.CO;2
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