US DOC; NOAA; NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE; NATIONAL DATA BUOY CENTER (NDBC)
20120606
Meteorological and oceanographic data collected from the National Data Buoy Center Coastal-Marine Automated Network (C-MAN) and moored (weather) buoys during May 2012 (NODC Accession 0090313)
tabular digital data
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
US National Oceanographic Data Center
http://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0090313
The National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) established the Coastal-Marine Automated Network (C-MAN) for the National Weather Service in the early 1980's. NDBC has installed approximately 50 C-MAN stations on lighthouses, at capes and beaches, on near shore islands, and on offshore platforms. NDBC has deployed over 100 moored (a.k.a., weather) buoys in coastal and offshore waters from the western Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean around Hawaii, and from the Bering Sea to the South Pacific. C-MAN and moored buoy data typically include barometric pressure, wind direction, speed and gust, and air temperature; however, some C-MAN stations are equipped to also measure seawater temperature, water level, waves, and relative humidity. Moored buoys measure wave energy spectra from which NDBC derives significant wave height, dominant wave period, and average wave period. In addition, many moored buoys measure the direction of wave propagation.
In collaboration, NDBC and the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) are archiving these data from C-MAN and moored buoys. This NODC Accession is part of the collaboration and it contains netCDF (version 4) files with the data collected during May 2012.
The purpose of collecting this data set is to respond to the need for recorded continuous meteorological and oceanographic observations in the US coastal areas.
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 December 1997 are also available on CD-ROM: see http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-cdrom.html#webdisc for additional information.
Documents about NDBC's processing of C-MAN and moored buoy data and other related information are in NODC accession 0070493 (see http://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0070493).
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20120531
ground condition
As needed
175.27
-45.998
61.082
14.175
NODC DATA TYPES THESAURUS
BAROMETRIC PRESSURE
CONDUCTIVITY
CURRENT SPEED
CURRENT SPEED - EAST/WEST COMPONENT (U)
CURRENT SPEED - NORTH/SOUTH COMPONENT (V)
CURRENT SPEED - UP/DOWN COMPONENT (W)
DEPTH - SENSOR
DEWPOINT
DIRECTIONAL WAVE SPECTRA
INCOMING SOLAR RADIATION
RELATIVE HUMIDITY
SALINITY
SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE
TEMPERATURE
TEMPERATURE - AIR
WAVE DATA
WAVE DIRECTION
WAVE HEIGHT - SIGNIFICANT
WAVE PERIOD - AVERAGE
WAVE PERIOD - DOMINANT
WAVE SPECTRA
WIND DIRECTION
WIND DIRECTION - CONTINUOUS
WIND GUST
WIND SPEED
NODC INSTRUMENT TYPES THESAURUS
ADCP
current meter
meteorological sensors
buoy - moored buoy
GPS
thermistor
inclinometer
anemometer
pyranometer
barometers
NODC OBSERVATION TYPES THESAURUS
meteorological
physical
time series
current measurements
NODC PLATFORM NAMES THESAURUS
317F - FIXED PLATFORM
NODC COLLECTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS
US DOC; NOAA; NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE; NATIONAL DATA BUOY CENTER (NDBC)
ISO 19115 Topic Categories
oceans
NODC ENVIRONMENTAL BUOY THESAURUS
41001
41002
41004
41008
41009
41010
41012
41013
41036
41040
41041
41043
41044
41046
41047
41048
41049
42001
42002
42003
42012
42020
42035
42036
42039
42040
42055
42056
42057
42058
42059
42060
44005
44007
44008
44009
44011
44014
44020
44025
44027
44065
45002
45003
45004
45005
45006
45007
45008
45012
46001
46002
46005
46006
46011
46012
46013
46014
46026
46027
46028
46035
46041
46042
46047
46050
46053
46054
46059
46061
46069
46070
46072
46075
46077
46080
46082
46083
46084
46085
46086
46088
46089
46114
51000
51002
51003
51004
51101
AMAA2
AUGA2
BLIA2
BURL1
BUZM3
CARO3
CDRF1
CHLV2
CLKN7
DBLN6
DESW1
DISW3
DPIA1
DRFA2
FBIS1
FFIA2
FILA2
FWYF1
IOSN3
KTNF1
LMBV4
LONF1
LSCM4
MDRM1
MISM1
MLRF1
MRKA2
NWPO3
PILA2
PILM4
POTA2
PTAC1
PTAT2
PTGC1
ROAM4
SACV4
SANF1
SAUF1
SBIO1
SGNW3
SGOF1
SISW1
SMKF1
SPGF1
SRST2
STDM4
TPLM2
TTIW1
VENF1
VERV4
WPOW1
CF Standard Name Table Thesaurus
adcp_quality_flags
air_pressure
air_pressure_at_sea_level
air_temperature
depth
dew_point_temperature
direction_of_sea_water_velocity
downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
eastward_sea_water_velocity
first_normalized_polar_coordinate_of_the_Fourier_coefficients
latitude
longitude
northward_sea_water_velocity
principal_wave_direction_at_specified_frequency
relative_humidity
sea_surface_temperature
sea_surface_wave_frequency
sea_surface_wave_from_direction
sea_surface_wave_mean_period_from_variance_spectral_density_second_frequency_moment
sea_surface_wave_period_at_variance_spectral_density_maximum
sea_surface_wave_significant_height
sea_surface_wave_variance_spectral_density
sea_water_electrical_conductivity
sea_water_salinity
sea_water_speed
sea_water_temperature
time
upward_sea_water_velocity
wind_from_direction
wind_speed
wind_speed_of_gust
NODC SUBMITTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS
US DOC; NOAA; NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE; NATIONAL DATA BUOY CENTER (NDBC)
NODC ACCESSION
90313
0090313
NODC SEA AREA NAMES THESAURUS
Gulf of Alaska
Gulf of Mexico
Bering Sea
Caribbean Sea
North Atlantic Ocean
North Pacific Ocean
Coastal Waters of SE Alaska
Coastal Waters of Western U.S.
Great Lakes
North American Coastline-North
North American Coastline-South
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary
Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary
Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary
none
NOAA and NODC would appreciate recognition as the resource
from which these data were obtained in any publications and/or other
representations of these data.
US DOC; NOAA; NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE; NATIONAL DATA BUOY CENTER
Hervey, Rex
mailing and physical
1007 Balch Blvd (NDBC) Room: 327
Stennis Space Center
MS
39529-6000
USA
Unavailable
Unavailable
None
Unclassified
None
National Data Buoy Center
200908
Unknown
Handbook of Automated Data Quality Control Checks and Procedures NDBC Technical Document 09-02
technical document
NDBC Technical Document
09-02
Stennis Space Center, Mississippi 39529-6000
National Buoy Data Center
http://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0070493
Anctil, F., M.A. Donelan, G.Z. Forristal, K.E.Steele, and Y. Ouellet
1993
Unknown
Deep-water Field evaluation of the NDBC-SWADE 3-m discus directional buoy
unknown
journal article
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
Volume 10, Issue 1
Boston, MA
American Meteorological Society
pp. 97-112
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/1520-0426%281993%29010%3C0097%3ADWFEOT%3E2.0.CO%3B2
Gilhousen, D. B.
1986
Unknown
An accuracy statement for meteorological measurements obtained from NDBC moored buoys. Proc. MDS, 1986
NA
journal article/symposium presentation
Marine Technology Society, Marine Data Systems International Symposium
April 30 - May 2 1986
New Orleans, LA
Marine Technology Society
Gilhosen, D. B
1987
Unknown
A field evaluation of NDBC Moored Buoy Winds
journal article
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
Volume 4
Boston, MA
American Meteorological Society
pp 94-104
http://www.worldwindsinc.com/TechPapers/dgil/eval_NDBC_moored_winds.pdf
Gilhousen, D. B
1989
Unknown
Field evaluation of NDBC directional wave data
presentation
Proceeding of the Second International Workshop on Hindcasting and Forecasting, Vancouver, BC
Canada, Environment Canada 1-10
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Evniroment Canada
Hervey, R
1999
Unknown
Are moored buoy winds too low in high seas?
presentation
Proceeding of the Third Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes
New Orleans, LA
New Orleans, LA
Proceeding of the Third Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediditon and Processes
Steele, K.E., J.C. Lau and Y.H.L. Hsu
1985
Unknown
Theory and Application of Calibration Techniques for an NDBC DirectionalWave Measurements Buoy
journal article
Journal of Oceanic Engineering, IEEE
Volume OE-10
Washington, DC
IEEE
Wilkerson, J.C., and M.D. Earle,
1990
Unknown
A study of the differences between environmental reports by ships in the voluntary observing program and measurements from NOAA buoys
journal article
Journal of Geophysical Research
95
Washington, DC
American Geophysical Union
pp. 3373-3385
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US National Oceanographic Data Center
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USA
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NODC ACCESSION # 0090313
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netCDF
netCDF-4
NetCDF Climate and Forecast (CF) Metadata Convention
No compression applied
http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/OAS/prd/accession/download/0090313
Data may be directly downloaded through the NODC Ocean Archive System at: URL: http://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0090313. NODC can be contacted directly for custom orders. (When requesting data from the NODC, the desired data set may be referred to by the NODC Accession Number given in the RESOURCE DESCRIPTION field of this metadata record.)
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http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/thredds/catalog/ndbc/cmanwx/2012/05/
Data may be directly downloaded from the NODC via the THREDDS (Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services) server at the URL listed in this metadata record.
Standard Internet browser and FTP capability
http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/opendap/ndbc/cmanwx/2012/05/
These data are also served using OPeNDAP (formerly DODS) server. The base URL is: http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/opendap/ndbc/cmanwx/. For a listing of OPeNDAP clients which may be used to access OPeNDAP-enabled data sets, please see the OPeNDAP web site at URL: http://opendap.org/
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ftp://ftp.nodc.noaa.gov/pub/data.nodc/ndbc/cmanwx/2012/05/
Direct FTP access: Navigate to ftp://ftp.nodc.noaa.gov/pub/data.nodc/ndbc/cmanwx/ using any FTP client to begin downloading data.
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Data may be directly downloaded through the NODC web site at: http://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0090313. NODC Customer Service can be contacted directly for custom orders. (When requesting data from the NODC, the desired data set may be referred to by the NODC Accession Number given in the RESOURCE DESCRIPTION field of this metadata record.)
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20120606
US National Oceanographic Data Center
Data Officer
mailing and physical
1315 East-West Hwy; SSMC3 4th Floor
Silver Spring
MD
20910-3282
USA
301-713-3272
301-713-3302
NODC.DataOfficer@noaa.gov
FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
FGDC-STD-001-1998
None
None
None
Unclassified
None