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OAS accession Detail for 0000165
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Title: Surf observations (height of breaking surf) based on visual estimates from the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii from 1968-08 to 1998-07 (NCEI Accession 0000165)
Abstract: Surf observations from the North Shore, Oahu, Hawaii are made on a daily basis by City and County of Honolulu lifeguards as well as local surfers. Although there is uncertainty of rough 20% for any given observations, this set of data captures the general trends and episodic events.
Date received: 20000601
Start date: 19680801
End date: 19980731
Seanames: Coastal Waters of Hawaii
West boundary: -158.2
East boundary: -158
North boundary: 21.7
South boundary: 21.65
Observation types: daily maximum
Instrument types: visual estimate
Datatypes: WAVE HEIGHT - BREAKING SURF
Submitter: Goddard, Larry
Submitting institution: US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; National Oceanographic Data Center
Collecting institutions:
Contributing projects:
Platforms:
Number of observations: 10950
Supplementary information: Additional descriptive information about this dataset can be found in the following file:

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0000165/data/0-data/nodcmeta/nsoahu_pcc.meta
Availability date:
Metadata version: 6
Keydate: 2001-04-16 04:00:00+00
Editdate: 2023-06-02 16:55:33+00