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Title: Air temperature, barometric pressure, sea surface temperature and other data from drifting buoys in the Indian Ocean, Japan Sea and others from 1995-10-01 to 1995-10-31 (NCEI Accession 9500161)
Abstract: The drifting buoy data in this accession was collected over a one month period from buoys deployed by National Data Buoy Center, Stennis Space Center, MS in TOGA Area - Pacific (30 N to 30 S). The data was collected as part of Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere project in October 1995.

This data type contains time series ocean circulation data determined by tracking the movement of drifting buoys, drogues or other instrumented devices. Movement is reported as point-to-point geographic locations determined by shore-based, surface ship, aircraft or satellite observations. Data from both ocean currents and sea ice movement can be reported in this format over time periods ranging from minutes to months. Directions and speeds between individual observations may be computed from these data and presented in graphic or summary listing form to provide information on circulation patterns and mass transport in offshore and nearshore regions.

Platform name (for platform acquiring data or deploying device), drogue characteristics, start and end positions and times, and observation frequency (if constant time interval) are reported for each series of observations. The data record comprises position, date and time for each observation. Other surface meteorological or oceanographic parameters (e.g., water temperature and salinity, air temperature and pressure, wind, waves) and subsurface data (depth, pressure, temperature) may also be reported. Text records may be used to report general comments or to describe individual drogue observations.

The water depth and other data from 51 drifting buoys was submitted by Mr. Michael K. Burdette via FTP.
Date received: 19951212
Start date: 19951001
End date: 19951031
Seanames: Indian Ocean, Japan Sea, North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific Ocean, Savu Sea, South Atlantic Ocean, South Pacific Ocean, Tasman Sea
West boundary: 48.29
East boundary: 4.25
North boundary: 50.95
South boundary: -52.9
Observation types: meteorological, physical, surface measurements, time series
Instrument types: buoy - drifting buoy
Datatypes: AIR TEMPERATURE, BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE, water depth, WIND DIRECTION, WIND SPEED
Submitter: Burdette, Mr. Michael K.
Submitting institution: US DOC; NOAA; NWS; National Data Buoy Center
Collecting institutions: US DOC; NOAA; National Weather Service, US DOC; NOAA; NWS; National Data Buoy Center, US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Contributing projects: TOGA
Platforms: drifting buoy (99DB)
Number of observations:
Supplementary information: These data files are in NODC F156 format. Documentation of this format and the codes used in this format are available in the about/ directory of this accession.

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, NCEI reviews metadata for all accessions on an ongoing basis.

Points of contact for this dataset include:
Contact info:
Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NATIONAL DATA BUOY CENTER
PI: Burdette, Mr. Michael
Address:
address: BLDG. 1100
city: STENNIS SPACE CENTER
state: MS
postal: 39529-6000
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19951212
Metadata version: 10
Keydate: 2002-11-19 19:40:22+00
Editdate: 2022-11-03 18:08:37+00