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Title: NOAA marine environmental buoy data from the National Data Buoy Center for August 2005 (NODC Accession 0002380)
Abstract: This accession contains multiple versions of these data, selecting the version of the data with the largest version number will ensure that user is downloading the most recent data available from NODC.
Date received: 20060424
Start date: 20050801
End date: 20050831
Seanames: Bering Sea, Caribbean Sea, Coastal Waters of SE Alaska, Coastal Waters of Western U.S., Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary, 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, Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, South Pacific Ocean
West boundary: 179.002
East boundary: -45.9967
North boundary: 61.0817
South boundary: -0.02
Observation types: meteorological, physical, time series
Instrument types: accelerometer, buoy - moored buoy, meteorological sensor, thermistor
Datatypes: AIR TEMPERATURE, BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, DIRECTIONAL WAVE SPECTRA, WATER TEMPERATURE, WAVE DIRECTION, WAVE HEIGHT, WIND DIRECTION, WIND GUST, WIND SPEED
Submitter: Weir, Robert
Submitting institution: US DOC; NOAA; NWS; National Data Buoy Center
Collecting institutions: US DOC; NOAA; NWS; National Data Buoy Center
Contributing projects:
Platforms: FIXED PLATFORM OF UNITED STATES (317F)
Number of observations: 118481
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.

In this accession, NODC has archived multiple versions of these data. The latest (and best) version of these data has the largest version number.
Availability date:
Metadata version: 4
Keydate: 2005-09-21 18:59:27+00
Editdate: 2013-10-16 16:42:44+00