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OAS accession Detail for 0164959
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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 July 2017 (NCEI Accession 0164959) |
| 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 Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) are archiving these data from C-MAN and moored buoys. This dataset is part of the collaboration and it contains netCDF (version 4) files with the data collected during July 2017. |
| Date received: | 20170802 |
| Start date: | 20170701 |
| End date: | 20170731 |
| Seanames: | Bering Sea, Caribbean Sea, Coastal Waters of Alabama, Coastal Waters of Florida, Coastal Waters of Louisiana, Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, Coastal Waters of Texas, Coastal Waters of Western U.S., Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary, Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, Great Lakes, Gulf of Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, 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, Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary |
| West boundary: | 179.012 |
| East boundary: | -46.082 |
| North boundary: | 61.082 |
| South boundary: | 14.329 |
| Observation types: | current measurements, meteorological, physical, time series |
| Instrument types: | ADCP, anemometer, barometer, buoy - moored buoy, current meter, GPS, inclinometer, meteorological sensor, pyranometer, thermistor |
| Datatypes: | AIR TEMPERATURE, BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, CURRENT DIRECTION, CURRENT SPEED, DEPTH - OBSERVATION, DEWPOINT, DIRECTIONAL WAVE SPECTRA, RELATIVE HUMIDITY, SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE, WAVE DATA, WAVE DIRECTION, WAVE HEIGHT - SIGNIFICANT, WAVE PERIOD - AVERAGE, WAVE PERIOD - DOMINANT, WAVE SPECTRA, WIND DIRECTION, WIND GUST, WIND SPEED |
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| Submitting institution: | US DOC; NOAA; NWS; National Data Buoy Center |
| Collecting institutions: | US DOC; NOAA; NWS; National Data Buoy Center |
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| Platforms: | FIXED PLATFORM OF UNITED STATES (317F) |
| Number of observations: | 249485 |
| 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/. Documents about NDBC's processing of C-MAN and moored buoy data and other related information are in NCEI accession 0070493. |
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| Metadata version: | 2 |
| Keydate: | 2017-08-15 05:05:04+00 |
| Editdate: | 2022-01-08 23:04:59+00 |