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OAS accession Detail for 0116427, meta_version: 1. Current meta_version is: 6
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| Title: | Meteorological and oceanographic data collected from the National Data Buoy Center Coastal-Marine Automated Network (C-MAN) and moored (weather) buoys during January 2014 (NODC Accession 0116427) |
| Abstract: | The National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) established the Coastal-Marine Automated Network (C-MAN) for the National Weather Service in the early 1980's. NDBC has installed approximately 50 C-MAN stations on lighthouses, at capes and beaches, on near shore islands, and on offshore platforms. NDBC has deployed over 100 moored (a.k.a., weather) buoys in coastal and offshore waters from the western Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean around Hawaii, and from the Bering Sea to the South Pacific. C-MAN and moored buoy data typically include barometric pressure, wind direction, speed and gust, and air temperature; however, some C-MAN stations are equipped to also measure seawater temperature, water level, waves, and relative humidity. Moored buoys measure wave energy spectra from which NDBC derives significant wave height, dominant wave period, and average wave period. In addition, many moored buoys measure the direction of wave propagation. In collaboration, NDBC and the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) are archiving these data from C-MAN and moored buoys. This NODC Accession is part of the collaboration and it contains netCDF (version 4) files with the data collected during January 2014. |
| Date received: | 20140203 |
| Start date: | 20140101 |
| End date: | 20140131 |
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| West boundary: | 175.27 |
| East boundary: | -46.082 |
| North boundary: | 61.082 |
| South boundary: | 14.329 |
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| Submitter: | Hervey, Rex V. |
| Submitting institution: | US DOC; NOAA; NWS; National Data Buoy Center |
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| Number of observations: | 95935 |
| Supplementary information: | The US National Oceanographic Data Center maintains a website that allows NDBC buoy data to be searched and downloaded by area, date, and buoy. The website is available at http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/BUOY/buoy.html. Documents about NDBC's processing of C-MAN and moored buoy data and other related information are in NODC accession 0070493 (see http://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0070493). |
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| Metadata version: | 1 |
| Keydate: | 2014-02-15 05:05:03+00 |
| Editdate: | 2014-02-15 05:05:47+00 |