Drifting buoy data observed during 1992 and assembled by the Responsible National Oceanographic Data Center (RNODC) for Drifting Buoy Data (NODC Accession 9300091)

• Format: Dataset
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• 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; 9300091; AIR TEMPERATURE - DRY BULB; BAROMETRIC PRESSURE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SWELL HEIGHT; SWELL PERIOD; WATER TEMPERATURE; WIND DIRECTION; WIND SPEED; buoy - drifting buoy; meteorological; physical; surface measurements; time series; DRIFTING BUOY; Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Oceanography and Scientific Data; Adriatic Sea; Arafura Sea; Arctic Ocean; Balearic (or Iberian) Sea; Barents Sea; Bay of Biscay; Beaufort Sea; Bering Sea; Bismarck Sea; Coral Sea; Davis Strait; East China Sea (Tung Hai); Great Australian Bight; Gulf of Alaska; Gulf of Guinea; Gulf of Mexico; Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary; Indian Ocean; Inner Sea - West Coast Scotland; Japan Sea; Java Sea; Labrador Sea; Ligurian Sea; Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin; Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin; Molucca Sea; Mozambique Channel; North Atlantic Ocean; North Greenland Sea; North Pacific Ocean; Northwestern Passages; Norwegian Sea; Persian Gulf (Gulf of Iran); Philippine Sea; Red Sea; Rose Atoll Marine National Monument; Sea of Okhotsk; Solomon Sea; South Atlantic Ocean; South China Sea (Nan Hai); South Pacific Ocean; Tasman Sea; World-Wide Distribution; Yellow Sea (Hwang Hai); oceanography; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > HUMIDITY; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED/WIND DIRECTION; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > SWELLS; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY; BUOYS; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > GLOBAL OCEAN; OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN; OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > BARENTS SEA; OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > BEAUFORT SEA; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > DAVIS STRAIT; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MEXICO; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > MEDITERRANEAN SEA > ADRIATIC SEA; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORWEGIAN SEA; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN; OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > ARABIAN SEA > PERSIAN GULF; OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > RED SEA; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > CENTRAL PACIFIC OCEAN > HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > BERING SEA; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > GULF OF ALASKA; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > SEA OF JAPAN; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > SEA OF OKHOTSK; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN > EAST CHINA SEA; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH CHINA AND EASTERN ARCHIPELAGIC SEAS; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH CHINA SEA; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN > YELLOW SEA; Arctic; Okhotsk; Canada; Greenland; Pacific; Indian; Western Basin; Bismarck; Greenland Sea; Humpback Whale; North Atlantic; North Greenland; Alaska
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Physical and meteorological data were collected from drifting buoys from a World-Wide distribution from 01 January 1992 to 31 December 1992. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard F156 Drifting Buoy Data format. Full format description is available from NODC at www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-Archive/f156.html. The F156 format is used for time series data on ocean circulation determined by the tracking of drifting buoys, drogues, or other instrumented devices as they are carried with the flow. Movement is reported as point-to-point geographic locations determined by shore-based, surface ship, aircraft, or satellite observations. Data from both ocean currents and ice movement can be reported in this format over time periods ranging from minutes to months. Directions and speeds between individual observations may be computed from these data and presented in graphic or summary listing form to provide information on circulation patterns and mass transport in offshore and near- shore regions. Platform name (for platform acquiring data or deploying device), drogue characteristics, start and end positions and times, and observation frequency (if constant time interval) are reported for each series of observation. Other surface meteorological or oceanographic parameters (e.g., water temperature and salinity, air temperature and pressure, wind, waves) and subsurface data (depth, pressure, temperature) may also be reported. Text records may be used to report general comments or to describe individual drogue observations.