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Title: Water temperature, salinity, and surface meteorology measurements collected from the Tropical Moored Buoys Array in the equatorial oceans from 1977-11-03 to 2020-09-30 (NCEI Accession 0078936)
Abstract: This dataset contains text files from the The Global Tropical Moored Buoy Array Program, a multi-national effort to provide data in real-time for climate research and forecasting. Major components include the TAO/TRITON (Tropical Atmosphere Ocean) array in the Pacific, PIRATA (Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Atlantic) in the Atlantic, and RAMA (Research Moored Array for African-Asian-Australian Monsoon Analysis and Prediction) in the Indian Ocean. The Global Tropical Moored Buoy Array Program is a contribution to the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), and the Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS). Data in this submission are updated every three months: January, April, July, and October, and include daily sub-surface profiles of water temperature, salinity, and surface metorological observations.
Date received: 20201019
Start date: 19771103
End date: 20200930
Seanames: Bay of Bengal, Equatorial Atlantic Ocean, Equatorial Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific Ocean, Philippine Sea, South Atlantic Ocean, South Pacific Ocean
West boundary: 50
East boundary: 9
North boundary: 22
South boundary: -25
Observation types: meteorological, physical, profile
Instrument types: conductivity sensor, humidity sensor, meteorological sensor, thermistor
Datatypes: AIR TEMPERATURE, RELATIVE HUMIDITY, SALINITY, SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE, WATER TEMPERATURE, WIND DIRECTION, WIND SPEED
Submitter: Freitag, Dr. Paul
Submitting institution: US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Collecting institutions:
Contributing projects: PIRATA, RAMA, TAO, TAO/TRITON
Platforms: moored buoys (pid: 10698)
Number of observations: 886826
Supplementary information: In this accession, NCEI has archived multiple versions of these data. The latest (and best) version of these data has the largest version number.
Availability date:
Metadata version: 54
Keydate: 2011-10-31 15:51:09+00
Editdate: 2021-02-14 19:56:55+00