| accessions_id: |
0070959 | archive
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| Title: |
NOAA marine environmental buoy data from the National Data Buoy Center for January 2011 (NODC Accession 0070959) |
| Abstract: |
The Coastal-Marine Automated Network (C-MAN) was established by NDBC for the NWS in the early 1980's. Approximately 50 stations make up C-MAN and have been installed on lighthouses, at capes and beaches, on near shore islands, and on offshore platforms. Over 100 moored weather buoys have been deployed in the 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 weather buoy data typically include barometric pressure, wind direction, speed and gust, and air temperature; however, some C-MAN stations are equipped to also measure sea water temperature, water level, waves, and relative humidity. Weather buoys measure wave energy spectra from which significant wave height, dominant wave period, and average wave period are derived. The direction of wave propagation is measured on many moored buoys. |
| Date received: |
20110211 |
| Start date: |
20110101 |
| End date: |
20110131 |
| Seanames: |
Bering Sea, Caribbean Sea, Coastal Waters of SE Alaska, Coastal Waters of Western U.S., Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary, Great Lakes, Gulf of Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, Monitor National Marine Sanctuary, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, North American Coastline-North, North American Coastline-South, North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific Ocean, Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary
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| West boundary: |
-177.75 |
| East boundary: |
-46.008 |
| North boundary: |
61.082 |
| South boundary: |
14.357 |
| Observation types: |
current measurements, meteorological, physical, time series
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| Instrument types: |
accelerometer, ADCP, anemometer, barometer, buoy - moored buoy, current meter, GPS, meteorological sensor, pyranometer, thermistor
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| Datatypes: |
BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, CONDUCTIVITY, CURRENT SPEED, DEPTH - BOTTOM, DEWPOINT, INCOMING SOLAR RADIATION, RELATIVE HUMIDITY, SALINITY, SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE, TEMPERATURE - AIR, VISIBILITY, WATER TEMPERATURE, WAVE DATA, WAVE DIRECTION, WAVE HEIGHT - SIGNIFICANT, WAVE PERIOD - AVERAGE, WAVE PERIOD - DOMINANT, WIND DIRECTION - CONTINUOUS, WIND GUST, WIND SPEED
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| Submitter: |
Hervey, Rex V. |
| Submitting institution: |
US DOC; NOAA; NWS; National Data Buoy Center |
| Collecting institutions: |
US DOC; NOAA; NWS; National Data Buoy Center |
| Contributing projects: |
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| Platforms: |
FIXED PLATFORM OF UNITED STATES (317F) |
| Number of observations: |
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| 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. Buoy data through December 1997 are also available on CD-ROM: see http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-cdrom.html#webdisc for additional information. |
| Availability date: |
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| Metadata version: |
2 |
| Keydate: |
2011-02-24 18:05:42+00 |
| Editdate: |
2011-02-25 19:04:59+00 |