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Title: Drifting buoy data observed during 2000 and assembled by the Responsible National Oceanographic Data Center (RNODC) for Drifting Buoy Data (NODC Accession 0000435)
Abstract:
Date received: 20010402
Start date: 20000101
End date: 20001231
Seanames: World-Wide Distribution
West boundary: -180
East boundary: 180
North boundary: 90
South boundary: -90
Observation types: meteorological, physical, surface measurements, time series
Instrument types: buoy - drifting buoy
Datatypes: AIR TEMPERATURE - DRY BULB, BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, DEPTH - OBSERVATION, RELATIVE HUMIDITY, SALINITY, SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE, SWELL HEIGHT, SWELL PERIOD, WATER TEMPERATURE, WIND DIRECTION, WIND SPEED
Submitter: Menard, Roger
Submitting institution: Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Marine Environmental Data Section
Collecting institutions:
Contributing projects:
Platforms:
Number of observations: 2596449
Supplementary information: As the Responsible National Oceanographic Data Center (RNODC) for Drifting Buoy Data, this is the MEDS annual submission of such data to the U.S. NODC.

Data format description is available in the about subdirectory of NODC Accession 0038809 (http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0014/0038809/01-version/about/MEDS_data_format.txt).
Availability date:
Metadata version: 3
Keydate: 2001-04-16 04:00:00+00
Editdate: 2008-02-28 19:02:26+00