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NOAA Marine Environmental Buoy Data (F291) Access and General Information

• Data Access

• Through web server:
  
  • if you right-click when the cursor is on the hyper-linked Z or U, this brings up a menu
  • click on "Save Link As..." (this is like a Save File As, or Save Target As..)
  • save the file in a directory on your hard drive, and remember to use the .Z extension to name the file if you downloaded the compressed version.
  • if you left-click on the U (uncompressed version), some browsers may not uncompress the file "on-the-fly" and display it to your screen. In this case, download the file to your hard drive (as a .txt file) and use a text editor to view it.
• By using ftp directly:
  
  • just ftp to ftp.nodc.noaa.gov
  • enter anonymous for the userid
  • enter your e-mail address for the password
  • cd to pub/f291 (there is a directory for each Year/Month that has data available - YYYYMM)
  • cd to the desired Year/Month directory (e.g. 199507)
  • get the file of your choice, or mget multiple files in the directory
  • enter bye to log off.
• If you do not have decompression software, gzip is free.
  It is available from http://www.gzip.org/*. It can uncompress .gz or .Z files and is available for most operating systems (Microsoft, Mac, Unix, etc).
• F291 data format description (format last changed September 1, 2006; document last edited May 30, 2008)
• Detailed information about NOAA Marine Environmental Buoy Data (F291) Data on CD-ROM
  - All buoy data is available online, however only data through December 1997 is on the CD-ROMs.
• Links to Information about NOAA Marine Environmental Buoy Data at the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC)

  - There is a lot of information about buoy data on the NDBC site.

  - NDBC is the source of the Buoy Data that is archived at NODC.

  • NDBC's Home Page (you will be leaving the NODC Web Site).
  • NDBC's Overview of the Moored Buoy Program (you will be leaving the NODC Web Site)
    - includes information about hull types with photos

• Information about errors, and announcements that are of interest to F291 Buoy Data users.

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