51477 Entity Published / External 8543 Grand Isle 1988 Data Set Completed Meta Table which provides definitions for the columns for data entities covering the sample data table for this dataset To define the columns of the Samples data table. Please use this information in conjunction with the descriptors provide for the columns as well as the abbreviations provided with the data table Data Table Yes Sample Data Column Definitions Meta Table which provides definitions for the columns in the data entities for this data set 20 Original Variable Name Character 40 Yes No Active The original variable name for which the data is supplied. This is the column name in the original_data.csv file 30 Revised Variable Name Character 40 Yes No Active This is the normalized corrected variable name for which the data is supplied. This is the column name in the data table renamed_data_table.csv file (if the data table is instead renamed_data_sheet.csv it will correspond to columns in that table. 40 Data Description Character 150 Yes No Active The descriptor/Column definition of the corresponding column 50 Data Type Character 12 Yes No Active Indicates the data type (generally character or numeric ) of the corresponding data column Character Number 60 Data Length Numeric 4 Yes No 0 Active The length of the corresponding field in question 70 Number of Decimal Places Numeric 2 No No Active Indicates the number of data places (for a numeric column) of the corresponding column in question. This will be blank if the corresponding column in question I 100 Required? Character 7 No No Active Indicates If it is required that this column be populated in the corresponding data table No Yes No Data Steward 1998 Person Ditty, James Jim.Ditty@noaa.gov 4700 Avenue U Galveston TX 77551-5997 409-766-3782 409-766-3508 Contact by email preferred. Distributor 2016 Organization NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information NCEI ncei.info@noaa.gov https://ror.org/04r0wrp59 https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact NCEI Contact Information Information for contacts at NCEI. Online Resource Contact by email preferred. Metadata Contact 1998 Person Ditty, James Jim.Ditty@noaa.gov 4700 Avenue U Galveston TX 77551-5997 409-766-3782 409-766-3508 Contact by email preferred. Point of Contact 2016 Person Baumer, Tim J tim.baumer@noaa.gov 4700 Avenue U Galveston TX 77551 409-766-3784 Contact by email preferred. https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0098/0156840/1.1/data/0-data/8543/CSV/Samples/Grand_Isle_1988_tblSamples_MetadataTable.csv 2016 Organization NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information https://ror.org/04r0wrp59 Grand_Isle_1988_tblSamples_MetadataTable.csv Meta data table table giving column definition csv (comma-separated values) CSV - Comma Separated Values (Text) Uncompressed Not Chked gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:51477 Lee Weinberger 2018-02-05T17:58:47 SysAdmin InPortAdmin 2026-03-04T19:17:17 2021-10-21 Southeast Fisheries Science Center SEFSC 75 Virginia Beach Drive Miami FL 33149 USA (305)361-5761 www.sefsc.noaa.gov 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. EST 1001 Public No 2021-10-21 1 Year 2022-10-21