US DOC; NOAA; NWS; National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) 20140207 tabular digital data Silver Spring, Maryland, USA US National Oceanographic Data Center http://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0115701 The Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) Array of 55 moored buoys spans the tropical Pacific from longitudes 165?E to 95?W between latitudes of approximately 8?S and 9?N. Moorings within the array measure surface meteorological and upper-ocean parameters and transmit most data in real time to shore via Service Argos. The array was part of the in-situ measurement portion of the Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere (TOGA) Program, a 10-year (1985 - 1994) study of climate variability on seasonal to interannual time scales, the most pronounced mode of which is the El Ni?o/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon (McPhaden, 1993). BASIC RESEARCH Documents about NDBC's processing of Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) array data and other related information are in NODC accession 0088104 (see http://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0088104). 20140101 20140131 ground condition Complete As needed 165 -95 8.066 -8 NODC DATA TYPES THESAURUS AIR TEMPERATURE BAROMETRIC PRESSURE CONDUCTIVITY CURRENT SPEED - EAST/WEST COMPONENT (U) CURRENT SPEED - NORTH/SOUTH COMPONENT (V) CURRENT SPEED - UP/DOWN COMPONENT (W) DEPTH - OBSERVATION INCOMING SOLAR RADIATION RELATIVE HUMIDITY SALINITY WATER TEMPERATURE WIND DIRECTION WIND SPEED HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE PRECIPITATION RATE NODC INSTRUMENT TYPES THESAURUS ADCP meteorological sensors CTD - moored CTD pyranometer NODC OBSERVATION TYPES THESAURUS meteorological physical NODC PLATFORM NAMES THESAURUS 317F - FIXED PLATFORM NODC PROJECT NAMES THESAURUS Tropical Atmosphere Ocean NODC COLLECTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS US DOC; NOAA; NWS; National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) ISO 19115 Topic Category oceans CF STANDARD NAME TABLE THESAURUS air_pressure_at_sea_level air_temperature depth eastward_sea_water_velocity latitude longitude northward_sea_water_velocity rainfall_rate relative_humidity sea_water_electrical_conductivity sea_water_pressure sea_water_salinity sea_water_temperature surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air time upward_sea_water_velocity wind_speed wind_to_direction NDBC TAO BUOY SENSOR THESAURUS ARGOS Transmitter Dopper Current Meter [SonTek/Argonaut-MD] Humidity-temperature Capacitance [Rotronics/MP100] Humidity-temperature Pt100 RTD [Rotronics/MP100] Longwave Pyrgeometer [Eppley Laboratory/PIR] Pressure Transducer [Paine 211-30-660-01] Pressure Transducer [Paroscientific/MET1-2] Rainfall Capacitance [R. M. Young/50203] Shortwave Pyranometer [Eppley Laboratory/PSP] Thermistor Conductivity Cell [Seabird/SBE 37] Thermistor [Seabird/SBE 37/39IM] Wind Propeller [R.M. Young/05103] Wind Vane [R.M. Young/05103] NDBC TAO BUOY THESAURUS T0N110W T2S95W T5N125W T5S165E T8N110W T8N125W T8S110W T8S165E WMO PLATFORM CODE THESAURUS ARGOS Transmitter Dopper Current Meter [SonTek/Argonaut-MD] Humidity-temperature Capacitance [Rotronics/MP100] Humidity-temperature Pt100 RTD [Rotronics/MP100] Longwave Pyrgeometer [Eppley Laboratory/PIR] Pressure Transducer [Paine 211-30-660-01] Pressure Transducer [Paroscientific/MET1-2] Rainfall Capacitance [R. M. Young/50203] Shortwave Pyranometer [Eppley Laboratory/PSP] Thermistor Conductivity Cell [Seabird/SBE 37] Thermistor [Seabird/SBE 37/39IM] Wind Propeller [R.M. Young/05103] Wind Vane [R.M. Young/05103] NODC SUBMITTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS US DOC; NOAA; NWS; National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) NODC ACCESSION 115701 0115701 NODC SEA AREA NAMES THESAURUS North Pacific Ocean South Pacific Ocean 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; NWS; National Data Buoy Center Petraitis, Dawn mailing and physical

National Data Buoy Center, Building Building: 3203

Stennis Space Center, MS 39529-6000 39529-6000 UNITED STATES Unavailable Unavailable None Unclassified None National Data Buoy Center 200908 Unknown technical document NDBC Technical Document NA Stennis Space Center, Mississippi 39529-6000 National Buoy Data Center http://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0088104 OceanSITES Unknown Unknown technical document OceanSITES Technical Document v1.2 8-10 Rue Hermes Parc Technologique du Canal Ramonville St-Agne 31520, France Joint Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology in situ Observing Platform Support (JCOMMOPS) - OceanSITES Project Office http://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0088104 In the absence of an electronic means of supplying specific details of each file format for each NODC dataset, NODC provides extended information to assist customers in finding specific information about potentially diverse data sets. This extended information is provided below. Recent data archived by the NODC are available in the format provided by the data originator. Data may also be available in NODC-processed formats. Please contact the NODC directly for additional details about this particular data set. US National Oceanographic Data Center User Services mailing and physical

1315 East-West Hwy; SSMC3 4th Floor / OC

Silver Spring MD 20910-3282 USA 301-713-3277 x148 301-713-3302 NODC.Services@noaa.gov NODC ACCESSION # 0115701 NOAA and NODC make no warranty, expressed or implied, regarding these data, nor does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty. NOAA and NODC cannot assume liability for any damages caused by any errors or omissions in the data. netCDF netCDF-4 Classic NetCDF Climate and Forecast (CF) Metadata Convention No compression applied http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/OAS/prd/accession/download/0115701 Data may be directly downloaded through the NODC Ocean Archive System at: URL: http://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0115701. NODC can be contacted directly for custom orders. (When requesting data from the NODC, a data set may be referred to by the NODC Accession Number given in the Resource Description field of this metadata record.) Standard Internet browser, PC, Mac, UNIX, Linux systems http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/thredds/catalog/ndbc/tao-buoy/2014/01/ 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/tao-buoy/2014/01/ These data are also served using OPeNDAP (formerly DODS) server. The base URL is: http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/opendap/ndbc/tao-buoy/2014/01/. 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/ Standard Internet browsers can browse OPeNDAP servers and specialized OPeNDAP software can enable more sophisticated data access and visualizations. ftp://ftp.nodc.noaa.gov/pub/data.nodc/ndbc/tao-buoy/2014/01/ Direct FTP access: Use any FTP client to begin downloading data. Username "anonymous", enter your email address as the password. Any FTP client Contact the NODC for most recent fee structure. Data may be directly downloaded through the NODC web site at: http://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0115701. NODC User Services 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.) Contact NODC User Services via E-mail: NODC.Services@noaa.gov Standard Internet browser 20140207 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