NDBC Standard Meteorological Buoy Data, 1970-presentNDBC Standard Meteorological Buoy Data, 1970-presentNDBC Standard Meteorological Buoy Data, 1970-presentNDBC Standard Meteorological Buoy Data, 1970-present

Dataset Identification:

Resource Abstract:
The National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) distributes meteorological data from moored buoys maintained by NDBC and others. Moored buoys are the weather sentinels of the sea. They are deployed in the coastal and offshore waters from the western Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean around Hawaii, and from the Bering Sea to the South Pacific. NDBC's moored buoys measure and transmit barometric pressure; wind direction, speed, and gust; air and sea temperature; and wave energy spectra from which significant wave height, dominant wave period, and average wave period are derived. Even the direction of wave propagation is measured on many moored buoys. The data is from NOAA NDBC. It has been reformatted by NOAA Coastwatch, West Coast Node. This dataset only has the data that is closest to a given hour. The time values in the dataset are rounded to the nearest hour. This dataset has both historical data (quality controlled, before 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z) and near real time data (less quality controlled, from 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z on).
Citation
Title NDBC Standard Meteorological Buoy Data, 1970-present
creation  Date   2018-11-13
cited responsible party - originator
individual Name 
organisation Name  NOAA NMFS SWFSC ERD
Contact information
Address
electronic Mail Address erd.data@noaa.gov
Linkage for online resource
name Background Information
URL: https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
protocol information
link function information
Description Background information from the source
target application profile  web browser
cited responsible party - contributor
individual Name 
organisation Name  NOAA NDBC and NOAA CoastWatch (West Coast Node)
Topic Category:  geoscientificInformation
Keywords:
Theme keywords (theme):
air
atmosphere
atmospheric
average
boundary
buoy
coastwatch
data
dew point
direction
dominant
eastward
from
gust
identifier
layer
level
measurements
meridional
meteorological
meteorology
name
ndbc
noaa
northward
ocean
oceans
period
planetary
pressure
quality
sea
sea level
seawater
significant
speed
sst
standard
static
station
surface
surface waves
swell
swells
temperature
tendency
vapor
visibility
water
wave
waves
wcn
wind
winds
zonal
Theme keywords (theme):
Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Waves > Wave Period
Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Waves > Swells
Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Waves > Significant Wave Height
Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Sea Surface Temperature
Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Winds > Surface Winds
Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Water Vapor > Dew Point Temperature
Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Temperature > Dew Point Temperature
Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Temperature > Air Temperature
Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Pressure > Static Pressure
Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Pressure > Sea Level Pressure
Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Pressure > Pressure Tendency
Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Pressure > Atmospheric Pressure Measurements
Earth Science > Atmosphere > Altitude > Planetary Boundary Layer Height
Earth Science > Atmosphere > Air Quality > Visibility
thesaurus name >
Title GCMD Science Keywords
project Keywords
NOAA NDBC and NOAA CoastWatch (West Coast Node)
Theme keywords (theme):
longitude
latitude
time
wind_from_direction
wind_speed
wind_speed_of_gust
sea_surface_wave_significant_height
sea_surface_swell_wave_period
sea_surface_swell_wave_period
sea_surface_wave_to_direction
air_pressure_at_sea_level
air_temperature
sea_surface_temperature
dew_point_temperature
visibility_in_air
tendency_of_air_pressure
surface_altitude
eastward_wind
northward_wind
thesaurus name >
Title CF Standard Name Table v55
Theme keywords (theme):
Earth Science
thesaurus name >
Title Science Domain > Earth Science
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 21:16:31 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Swell
thesaurus name >
Title Process > Ocean Process
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 21:16:31 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
NOAA
thesaurus name >
Title Organization > GOVERNMENT AGENCIES-U.S. FEDERAL AGENCIES
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 21:16:31 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Averaging
thesaurus name >
Title Method > information processing
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 21:16:31 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Water
Vapor
thesaurus name >
Title Material > Environmental Material
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 21:16:31 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Dataset
thesaurus name >
Title Resource Type > Dataset
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 21:16:31 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Measurement
thesaurus name >
Title Activity > Observation
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 21:16:31 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Sea Level
thesaurus name >
Title Realm > Critical Zone
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 21:16:31 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Pacific
Hawaii
Coast
Seawater
thesaurus name >
Title Feature > Marine Feature
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 21:16:31 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Centered
South
Barometric Pressure
Wind Direction
Speed
Height
Direction
West
Level With
Surface Temperature
Pressure
Temperature
Measurement
Air Temperature
thesaurus name >
Title Property > Measure
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 21:16:31 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Meteorology
thesaurus name >
Title Science Domain > Atmospheric Sciences
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 21:16:31 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Buoy
thesaurus name >
Title Equipment > Instrument
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 21:16:31 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Moor
thesaurus name >
Title Feature > Environmental Feature
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 21:16:31 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Atmosphere
thesaurus name >
Title Realm > Atmosphere
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 21:16:31 UTC 2018
Resource language:  eng
Constraints on resource usage:
Legal Constraints
Use Limitation
The data may be used and redistributed for free but is not intended for legal use, since it may contain inaccuracies. Neither the data Contributor, ERD, NOAA, nor the United States Government, nor any of their employees or contractors, makes any warranty, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness, of this information.
Resource extent
Geographic Extent
Geographic Bounding Box
extent Type Code  1
westBoundLongitude  -177.75
eastBoundLongitude  179.001
northBoundLatitude  71.758
southBoundLatitude  -55.0
Temporal Extent
seconds 1970-02-26T20:00:00Z 2018-11-13T16:00:00Z
Credits:
NOAA NDBC and NOAA CoastWatch (West Coast Node)
point of contact - pointOfContact
individual Name 
organisation Name  NOAA NMFS SWFSC ERD
Contact information
Address
electronic Mail Address erd.data@noaa.gov
Linkage for online resource
name Background Information
URL: https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
protocol information
link function information
Description Background information from the source
target application profile  web browser
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Service Identification information: 1

Resource Abstract:
The National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) distributes meteorological data from moored buoys maintained by NDBC and others. Moored buoys are the weather sentinels of the sea. They are deployed in the coastal and offshore waters from the western Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean around Hawaii, and from the Bering Sea to the South Pacific. NDBC's moored buoys measure and transmit barometric pressure; wind direction, speed, and gust; air and sea temperature; and wave energy spectra from which significant wave height, dominant wave period, and average wave period are derived. Even the direction of wave propagation is measured on many moored buoys. The data is from NOAA NDBC. It has been reformatted by NOAA Coastwatch, West Coast Node. This dataset only has the data that is closest to a given hour. The time values in the dataset are rounded to the nearest hour. This dataset has both historical data (quality controlled, before 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z) and near real time data (less quality controlled, from 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z on).
Citation
Title NDBC Standard Meteorological Buoy Data, 1970-present
creation  Date   2018-11-13
cited responsible party - originator
individual Name 
organisation Name  NOAA NMFS SWFSC ERD
Contact information
Address
electronic Mail Address erd.data@noaa.gov
Linkage for online resource
name Background Information
URL: https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
protocol information
link function information
Description Background information from the source
target application profile  web browser
cited responsible party - contributor
individual Name 
organisation Name  NOAA NDBC and NOAA CoastWatch (West Coast Node)
Service type: ERDDAP tabledap
Resource extent
Geographic Extent
Geographic Bounding Box
extent Type Code  1
westBoundLongitude  -177.75
eastBoundLongitude  179.001
northBoundLatitude  71.758
southBoundLatitude  -55.0
Temporal Extent
seconds 1970-02-26T20:00:00Z 2018-11-13T16:00:00Z
Coupling between service and dataset:  tight
Service operations:
Operation name: ERDDAPtabledapDatasetQueryAndAccess
Linkage for online resource
name ERDDAP-tabledap
URL: http://www.neracoos.org/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet
protocol ERDDAP:tabledap
link function download
Description ERDDAP's tabledap service (a flavor of OPeNDAP) for tabular (sequence) data. Add different extensions (e.g., .html, .graph, .das, .dds) to the base URL for different purposes.
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Service Identification information: 1

Resource Abstract:
The National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) distributes meteorological data from moored buoys maintained by NDBC and others. Moored buoys are the weather sentinels of the sea. They are deployed in the coastal and offshore waters from the western Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean around Hawaii, and from the Bering Sea to the South Pacific. NDBC's moored buoys measure and transmit barometric pressure; wind direction, speed, and gust; air and sea temperature; and wave energy spectra from which significant wave height, dominant wave period, and average wave period are derived. Even the direction of wave propagation is measured on many moored buoys. The data is from NOAA NDBC. It has been reformatted by NOAA Coastwatch, West Coast Node. This dataset only has the data that is closest to a given hour. The time values in the dataset are rounded to the nearest hour. This dataset has both historical data (quality controlled, before 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z) and near real time data (less quality controlled, from 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z on).
Citation
Title NDBC Standard Meteorological Buoy Data, 1970-present
creation  Date   2018-11-13
cited responsible party - originator
individual Name 
organisation Name  NOAA NMFS SWFSC ERD
Contact information
Address
electronic Mail Address erd.data@noaa.gov
Linkage for online resource
name Background Information
URL: https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
protocol information
link function information
Description Background information from the source
target application profile  web browser
cited responsible party - contributor
individual Name 
organisation Name  NOAA NDBC and NOAA CoastWatch (West Coast Node)
Service type: OPeNDAP
Resource extent
Geographic Extent
Geographic Bounding Box
extent Type Code  1
westBoundLongitude  -177.75
eastBoundLongitude  179.001
northBoundLatitude  71.758
southBoundLatitude  -55.0
Temporal Extent
seconds 1970-02-26T20:00:00Z 2018-11-13T16:00:00Z
Coupling between service and dataset:  tight
Service operations:
Operation name: OPeNDAPDatasetQueryAndAccess
Linkage for online resource
name OPeNDAP
URL: http://www.neracoos.org/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet
protocol OPeNDAP:OPeNDAP
link function download
Description An OPeNDAP service for tabular (sequence) data. Add different extensions (e.g., .html, .das, .dds) to the base URL for different purposes.
Back to top:

Service Identification information: 1

Resource Abstract:
The National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) distributes meteorological data from moored buoys maintained by NDBC and others. Moored buoys are the weather sentinels of the sea. They are deployed in the coastal and offshore waters from the western Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean around Hawaii, and from the Bering Sea to the South Pacific. NDBC's moored buoys measure and transmit barometric pressure; wind direction, speed, and gust; air and sea temperature; and wave energy spectra from which significant wave height, dominant wave period, and average wave period are derived. Even the direction of wave propagation is measured on many moored buoys. The data is from NOAA NDBC. It has been reformatted by NOAA Coastwatch, West Coast Node. This dataset only has the data that is closest to a given hour. The time values in the dataset are rounded to the nearest hour. This dataset has both historical data (quality controlled, before 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z) and near real time data (less quality controlled, from 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z on).
Citation
Title NDBC Standard Meteorological Buoy Data, 1970-present
creation  Date   2018-11-13
cited responsible party - originator
individual Name 
organisation Name  NOAA NMFS SWFSC ERD
Contact information
Address
electronic Mail Address erd.data@noaa.gov
Linkage for online resource
name Background Information
URL: https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
protocol information
link function information
Description Background information from the source
target application profile  web browser
cited responsible party - contributor
individual Name 
organisation Name  NOAA NDBC and NOAA CoastWatch (West Coast Node)
Service type: ERDDAP Subset
Resource extent
Geographic Extent
Geographic Bounding Box
extent Type Code  1
westBoundLongitude  -177.75
eastBoundLongitude  179.001
northBoundLatitude  71.758
southBoundLatitude  -55.0
Temporal Extent
seconds 1970-02-26T20:00:00Z 2018-11-13T16:00:00Z
Coupling between service and dataset:  tight
Service operations:
Operation name: ERDDAP_Subset
Linkage for online resource
name Subset
URL: http://www.neracoos.org/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.subset
protocol search
link function download
Description Web page to facilitate selecting subsets of the dataset
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Grid spatial representation

number of grid dimensions: 3
Grid axis property:
Grid Dimension
Dimension Name:  column
Dimension Size 
Grid Dimension
Dimension Name:  row
Dimension Size 
Grid Dimension
Dimension Name:  temporal
Dimension Size 
cell geometry type: 
transformation parameter availability: 
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Band
descriptor Station Name
sequence Identifier
name station
attribute Type
Name String
Band
descriptor Time
sequence Identifier
name time
attribute Type
Name double
units
Band
descriptor Wind Direction
sequence Identifier
name wd
attribute Type
Name short
units
Band
descriptor Wind Speed
sequence Identifier
name wspd
attribute Type
Name float
units
Band
descriptor Wind Gust Speed
sequence Identifier
name gst
attribute Type
Name float
units
Band
descriptor Wave Height
sequence Identifier
name wvht
attribute Type
Name float
units
Band
descriptor Wave Period, Dominant
sequence Identifier
name dpd
attribute Type
Name float
units
Band
descriptor Wave Period, Average
sequence Identifier
name apd
attribute Type
Name float
units
Band
descriptor Wave Direction
sequence Identifier
name mwd
attribute Type
Name short
units
Band
descriptor Air Pressure
sequence Identifier
name bar
attribute Type
Name float
units
Band
descriptor Air Temperature
sequence Identifier
name atmp
attribute Type
Name float
units
Band
descriptor SST
sequence Identifier
name wtmp
attribute Type
Name float
units
Band
descriptor Dewpoint Temperature
sequence Identifier
name dewp
attribute Type
Name float
units
Band
descriptor Station Visibility
sequence Identifier
name vis
attribute Type
Name float
units
Band
descriptor Pressure Tendency
sequence Identifier
name ptdy
attribute Type
Name float
units
Band
descriptor Water Level
sequence Identifier
name tide
attribute Type
Name float
units
Band
descriptor Wind Speed, Zonal
sequence Identifier
name wspu
attribute Type
Name float
units
Band
descriptor Wind Speed, Meridional
sequence Identifier
name wspv
attribute Type
Name float
units

Scope of quality information
scope level  dataset
Resource lineage description
Lineage statement
NOAA NDBC

Resource distribution information

Distributor
distributor contact - distributor
individual Name Ru Morrison
organisation Name  NERACOOS
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 603-319-1785
Address
195 New Hampshire Ave., Portsmouth, NH, 03801 Country USA
electronic Mail Address info@neracoos.org
Format
Format name OPeNDAP
Format version DAP/2.0
Digital Transfer Options
Linkage for online resource
name Data Subset Form
URL: http://www.neracoos.org/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html
protocol order
link function download
Description ERDDAP's version of the OPeNDAP .html web page for this dataset. Specify a subset of the dataset and download the data via OPeNDAP or in many different file types.
Digital Transfer Options
Linkage for online resource
name Make-A-Graph Form
URL: http://www.neracoos.org/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.graph
protocol order
link function mapDigital
Description ERDDAP's Make-A-Graph .html web page for this dataset. Create an image with a map or graph of a subset of the data.

Metadata data stamp:  2018-11-13
Resource Maintenance Information
maintenance or update frequency: 
notes: This record was created from dataset metadata by ERDDAP Version 1.82
Metadata contact - pointOfContact
individual Name Ru Morrison
organisation Name  NERACOOS
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 603-319-1785
Address
195 New Hampshire Ave., Portsmouth, NH, 03801 Country USA
electronic Mail Address info@neracoos.org
Metadata scope code  dataset
Metadata scope code  service
Metadata language  eng
Metadata character set encoding:   UTF8
Metadata standard for this record:  ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata Part 2 Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data
standard version:  ISO 19115-2:2009(E)
Metadata record identifier:  cwwcNDBCMet

Metadata record format is ISO19139-2 XML (MI_Metadata)