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Title: NOAA marine environmental buoy data from the National Data Buoy Center for August 2001 (NODC Accession No. 0000588)
Abstract:
Date received: 20010919
Start date: 20010801
End date: 20010831
Seanames: Coastal Waters of Hawaii, Coastal Waters of S Alaska, Coastal Waters of Western U.S., Great Lakes, Gulf of Mexico, North American Coastline-North, North American Coastline-South, Northeast Pacific Ocean (limit-180)
West boundary: -164.185
East boundary: -66.5917
North boundary: 67.5817
South boundary: 0.000277778
Observation types: meteorological, physical, time series
Instrument types: accelerometer, buoy - moored buoy, meteorological sensor, thermistor
Datatypes: AIR TEMPERATURE, BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, DIRECTIONAL WAVE SPECTRA, SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE, WAVE DIRECTION, WAVE HEIGHT, WIND DIRECTION, WIND GUST, WIND SPEED
Submitter: Redmon, B. G.
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: 125
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 1997 December 1997 are also available on CD-ROM: see
http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-cdrom.html#webdisc for additional information.
Availability date: 20010928
Metadata version: 1
Keydate: 2001-09-28 11:41:45+00
Editdate: 2006-03-03 22:15:05+00