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Title: Drifting buoy data observed during 2001 and assembled by the Responsible National Oceanographic Data Center (RNODC) for Drifting Buoy Data (NODC Accession 0000724)
Abstract:
Date received: 20020513
Start date: 20010101
End date: 20011231
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: 2987430
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.

Availability date: 20020513
Metadata version: 3
Keydate: 2002-05-14 15:55:42+00
Editdate: 2008-02-28 19:16:55+00