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Title: Meteorological, oceanographic, wave spectra, and other data from FIXED PLATFORMS from the North Atlantic Ocean and other locations from 01 December 1985 to 20 December 1985 (NODC Accession 8600036)
Abstract: Meteorological, oceanographic, wave spectra, and other data were collected from FIXED PLATFORMS in the North Atlantic Ocean and other locations. Data were collected by the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) from 01 December 1985 to 20 December 1985. Data were processed by NODC to the standard NODC F291-Meteorology, Oceanography, and Wave Spectra from Buoys format. Full format description is available from NODC at www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-Archive/f291.html. Links to digital data are not available at this time.

The F291 format is used to report meteorological, oceanographic, and wave spectra data from NDBC moored buoys and fixed land stations. The format contains thirteen data record types to: 1) Identify the buoy position and other descriptive information; 2) report the meteorological measurements; 3) report wave energy spectra and wave direction; 4) report subsurface physical, biological and chemical oceanographic measurements; and 5) report detailed information on continuously measured wind speed and direction. Each record is 120 characters in length, sorted by station and record type. Record type is omitted where data defined in that type and not measured. The first nine columns for all records are to be used for file type (columns 1-3) and file identifier (columns 4-9). The file identifier, assigned by the originator, is a unique originator id for each data submission. After submission, the NODC reassigns to this field a unique and NODC identifier for internal use.
Date received: 19860130
Start date: 19851201
End date: 19851220
Seanames: Bering Sea, Coastal Waters of California, Coastal Waters of Hawaii, Coastal Waters of Washington/Oregon, Coastal Waters of Western U.S., Great Lakes, Gulf of Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, North American Coastline-North, North American Coastline-South, North Atlantic Ocean, Northeast Pacific Ocean (limit-180), Northwest Atlantic Ocean (limit-40 W)
West boundary: -177
East boundary: -65.58
North boundary: 63.3
South boundary: 9.95
Observation types: meteorological, physical, time series
Instrument types: accelerometer, buoy - moored buoy, DO NOT USE, inclinometer, meteorological sensor
Datatypes: AIR TEMPERATURE, BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, CONDUCTIVITY, CURRENT METER - EAST-WEST COMPONENT (U), CURRENT METER - NORTH-SOUTH COMPONENT (V), CURRENT SPEED - UP/DOWN COMPONENT (W), DEWPOINT, PHOTOSYNTHETIC ACTIVE RADIATION (PAR), PRECIPITATION, SALINITY, SOLAR RADIATION - ATMOSPHERIC, VISIBILITY, water depth, WATER LEVEL, WATER TEMPERATURE, WAVE DATA - CO-SPECTRA, WAVE DATA - POLAR COORDINATE RADIUS, WAVE DATA - QUAD-SPECTRA, WAVE DIRECTION - AVERAGE, WAVE HEIGHT - MAXIMUM, WAVE HEIGHT - SIGNIFICANT, WAVE PERIOD - AVERAGE, WAVE PERIOD - DOMINANT, WAVE SPECTRA - NON-DIRECTIONAL, WAVE STEEPNESS - MAXIMUM, WEATHER, WIND DIRECTION, WIND DIRECTION - AVERAGE, WIND DIRECTION - CONTINUOUS, WIND GUST, WIND SPEED, WIND SPEED - AVERAGE, WIND SPEED - CONTINUOUS
Submitter:
Submitting institution: US DOC; NOAA; NWS; National Data Buoy Center
Collecting institutions: US DOC; NOAA; NWS; National Data Buoy Center
Contributing projects: UNKNOWN - DO NOT USE
Platforms: FIXED PLATFORM OF UNITED STATES (317F)
Number of observations:
Supplementary information: Note: Metadata for this accession were extracted from a legacy database
maintained by the U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). The
design of the database did not exactly reflect the FGDC Content
Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM).

Principal Investigator (PI) and organization contact information
accurately represents all available information from the legacy database
at the time that this description was created. However, proper
attribution of a PI to a specific institution or the role (submitting or
collecting) taken by an institution may not be correct due to inexact
mapping between fields in the legacy database and the CSDGM. Due to this
uncertainty, the contact information was initially recorded in the
Supplemental Information element of the CSDGM description.

To develop more accurate metadata, the NODC reviews metadata for all
accessions on an ongoing basis.


Points of contact for this data set include:
Contact info:
Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NATIONAL DATA BUOY CENTER
PI: N/A
Address:
address: BLDG. 1100
city: STENNIS SPACE CENTER
state: MS
postal: 39529-6000
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19860130
Metadata version: 5
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:36:07+00
Editdate: 2013-10-17 12:11:10+00