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Title: NOAA marine environmental buoy data from the National Data Buoy Center for 2005-12 (NODC Accession 0002506)
Abstract:
Date received: 20060113
Start date: 20051201
End date: 20051231
Seanames: Bering Sea, Caribbean Sea, Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, 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, North Pacific Ocean, 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: 109489
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/.
Availability date:
Metadata version: 3
Keydate: 2006-01-17 20:35:50+00
Editdate: 2016-07-27 12:55:44+00