Meteorological and oceanographic data collected from the National Data Buoy Center Coastal-Marine Automated Network (C-MAN) and moored (weather) buoys during August 2016 (NCEI Accession 0156603)

• Main Authors: Anctil, F., M.A. Donelan, G.Z. Forristal, K.E. Steele, and Y. Ouellet, Gilhousen, D. B., Hervey, R, Steele, K.E., J.C. Lau and Y.H.L. Hsu, Wilkerson, J.C., and M.D. Earle
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: NOAA NCEI Environmental Data Archive 2016
• Subjects: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; 0156603; AIR TEMPERATURE; BAROMETRIC PRESSURE; CURRENT DIRECTION; CURRENT SPEED; DEPTH - OBSERVATION; DEWPOINT; DIRECTIONAL WAVE SPECTRA; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WAVE DATA; WAVE DIRECTION; WAVE HEIGHT - SIGNIFICANT; WAVE PERIOD - AVERAGE; WAVE PERIOD - DOMINANT; WAVE SPECTRA; WIND DIRECTION; WIND GUST; WIND SPEED; ADCP; anemometer; barometers; buoy - moored buoy; current meter; GPS; inclinometer; meteorological sensors; pyranometer; thermistor; current measurements; meteorological; physical; time series; FIXED PLATFORM; US DOC; NOAA; NWS; National Data Buoy Center; Bering Sea; Caribbean Sea; Coastal waters of Alabama; Coastal Waters of Florida; Coastal Waters of Louisiana; Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia; Coastal Waters of Texas; Coastal Waters of Western U.S.; Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary; Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary; Great Lakes; Gulf of Alaska; Gulf of Mexico; Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary; Monitor National Marine Sanctuary; Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary; North American Coastline-North; North American Coastline-South; North Atlantic Ocean; North Pacific Ocean; Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary; oceanography; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES-U.S. FEDERAL AGENCIES > DOC > NOAA > DOC/NOAA/NWS/NDBC > National Data Buoy Center, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce > http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > DEW POINT TEMPERATURE; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > HUMIDITY; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED/WIND DIRECTION; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION > OCEAN CURRENTS; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > WAVE HEIGHT; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > WAVE PERIOD; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > WAVE SPECTRA; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > WAVE SPEED/DIRECTION; air_pressure; air_pressure_at_sea_level; air_temperature; depth; dew_point_temperature; direction_of_sea_water_velocity; first_normalized_polar_coordinate_of_the_Fourier_coefficients; latitude; longitude; 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_speed; time; wind_from_direction; wind_speed; wind_speed_of_gust; Earth Remote Sensing Instruments > Passive Remote Sensing > Positioning/Navigation > GPS; Earth Remote Sensing Instruments > Passive Remote Sensing > Thermal/Radiation Detectors > PYRANOMETERS; In Situ/Laboratory Instruments > Current/Wind Meters > ANEMOMETERS; In Situ/Laboratory Instruments > Current/Wind Meters > CURRENT METERS; In Situ/Laboratory Instruments > Magnetic/Motion Sensors > Gravimeters > INCLINOMETERS; In Situ/Laboratory Instruments > Pressure/Height Meters > BAROMETERS; In Situ/Laboratory Instruments > Profilers/Sounders > Acoustic Sounders > ADCP > Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler; In Situ/Laboratory Instruments > Temperature/Humidity Sensors > Thermistors > THERMISTORS; 41002; 41004; 41008; 41009; 41010; 41013; 41025; 41040; 41041; 41043; 41044; 41046; 41047; 41048; 41049; 42001; 42002; 42003; 42012; 42019; 42020; 42035; 42036; 42039; 42040; 42055; 42056; 42058; 42059; 44005; 44007; 44008; 44011; 44013; 44014; 44017; 44018; 44020; 44025; 44027; 44065; 44066; 45001; 45002; 45003; 45004; 45005; 45006; 45007; 45008; 45012; 46001; 46002; 46005; 46006; 46011; 46012; 46013; 46014; 46015; 46022; 46025; 46026; 46027; 46028; 46029; 46035; 46041; 46042; 46047; 46050; 46053; 46054; 46059; 46060; 46061; 46066; 46069; 46070; 46071; 46072; 46076; 46078; 46080; 46081; 46083; 46084; 46085; 46086; 46087; 46088; 46089; 51000; 51002; 51003; 51004; 51101; AMAA2; AUGA2; BLIA2; BURL1; BUZM3; CDRF1; CLKN7; DBLN6; DESW1; DISW3; DPIA1; DRFA2; FBIS1; FFIA2; FILA2; FWYF1; IOSN3; KTNF1; LONF1; MDRM1; MISM1; MLRF1; MRKA2; NWPO3; PILA2; PILM4; PLSF1; POTA2; PTAT2; PTGC1; ROAM4; SANF1; SAUF1; SBIO1; SGNW3; SGOF1; SISW1; SPGF1; SRST2; STDM4; TPLM2; TTIW1; VENF1; WPOW1; CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > CANADA > GREAT LAKES, CANADA; CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > GREAT LAKES; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > CARIBBEAN SEA; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MEXICO; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > BERING SEA; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > GULF OF ALASKA; Canada; Pacific; Alabama; British Columbia; Coastal Waters Of Southeast Alaska; North Atlantic; Alaska
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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 August 2016.