Drifting buoy data collected by the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) in oceans world-wide from 1984-05-01 to 1998-10-27

• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: NOAA NCEI Environmental Data Archive 2017
• 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; DOC/NOAA/NWS/NDBC > National Data Buoy Center, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; 8500149; 8500175; 8500243; 8500244; 8500274; 8500275; 8600006; 8600037; 8600056; 8600104; 8600135; 8600161; 8600166; 8600221; 8600283; 8600284; 8600339; 8700030; 8700031; 8700032; 8700083; 8700101; 8700133; 8700185; 8700187; 8700218; 8700255; 8700276; 8700306; 8700354; 8700372; 8800002; 8800039; 8800076; 8800077; 8800150; 8800153; 8800161; 8800196; 8800216; 8800238; 8800258; 8800268; 8800278; 8800283; 8800319; 8800333; 8900018; 8900044; 8900121; 8900156; 8900162; 8900189; 8900200; 8900227; 8900247; 8900268; 8900294; 9000015; 9000035; 9000042; 9000070; 9000104; 9000123; 9000156; 9000177; 9000207; 9000231; 9000260; 9000282; 9100019; 9100029; 9100036; 9100052; 9100067; 9100084; 9100098; 9100111; 9100139; 9100161; 9100187; 9100204; 9100224; 9200006; 9200019; 9200058; 9200074; 9200095; 9200120; 9200143; 9200238; 9200244; 9200258; 9200267; 9200286; 9200301; 9300013; 9300037; 9300055; 9300084; 9300098; 9300116; 9300138; 9300158; 9300167; 9300176; 9300190; 9300197; 9400003; 9400021; 9400034; 9400055; 9400076; 9400098; 9400115; 9400136; 9400191; 9400200; 9400215; 9400226; 9500008; 9500014; 9500044; 9500045; 9500055; 9500098; 9500102; 9500103; 9500123; 9500135; 9500144; 9500161; 9600002; 9600010; 9600011; 9600070; 9600073; 9600084; 9600111; 9600114; 9600130; 9600148; 9600155; 9600164; 9700002; 9700017; 9700029; 9700041; 9700091; 9700092; 9700160; 9700190; 9700229; 9700230; 9700262; 9700292; 9700318; 9800024; 9800025; 9800039; 9800044; 9800056; 9800084; 9800189; 9800195; 9900111; AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLES; BAROMETRIC PRESSURE; CURRENT DIRECTION; CURRENT SPEED; DEPTH - BOTTOM; DEPTH - SENSOR; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; ICE - MOVEMENT - DIRECTION; ICE - MOVEMENT - SPEED; SALINITY; SALINITY - SURFACE WATER; SEA STATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; water depth; WATER TEMPERATURE; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE PERIOD; WIND DIRECTION; WIND SPEED; buoy - drifting buoy; current measurements - surface currents; physical; surface measurements; time series; CLYDE-OWS LIMA; DIVING BELL; DRIFTING BUOY; DRIFTING BUOYS; DRIFTING PLATFORM; FIXED PLATFORM; UNKNOWN; US DOC; NOAA; NWS; National Data Buoy Center; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC OCEAN CLIMATE STUDIES (EPOCS); GULF OF MEXICO NOAA/NDBO COOP. DRIFTING BUOY; Louisiana-Texas GULF OF MEXICO EDDY CIRCULATION STUDY (LATEX PART C); OCEAN PREDICTION THROUGH OBSERVATION MODELING AND ANALYSIS (OPTOMA); TROPICAL OCEAN GLOBAL ATMOSPHERE (TOGA); Bass Strait; Bering Sea; Black Sea; Caribbean Sea; Great Australian Bight; Gulf of Alaska; Gulf of Mexico; Gulf of Tomini; Indian Ocean; Makassar Strait; NE Pacific (limit-180); North Atlantic Ocean; North Pacific Ocean; NW Atlantic (limit-40 W); NW Pacific (limit-180); Savu Sea; SE Atlantic (limit-20 W); SE Pacific (limit-140 W); South Atlantic Ocean; South China Sea (Nan Hai); South Pacific Ocean; Sulu Sea; SW Atlantic (limit-20 W); SW Pacific (limit-147 E to 140 W); Tasman Sea; TOGA Area - Pacific (30 N to 30 S); World-Wide Distribution; Yellow Sea (Hwang Hai); oceanography; weatherObservations; EPOCS > Equatorial Pacific Ocean Climate Studies; LATEX > Louisiana-Texas Shelf Physical Oceanography Program; TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED/WIND DIRECTION; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > WATER DEPTH; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION > OCEAN CURRENTS; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN PRESSURE > WATER PRESSURE; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > WAVE HEIGHT; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > WAVE PERIOD; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > SEA ICE MOTION; BUOYS; CONTINENT > ASIA > WESTERN ASIA > BLACK SEA; CONTINENT > EUROPE > EASTERN EUROPE > BLACK SEA; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > GLOBAL OCEAN; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > CARIBBEAN SEA; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MEXICO; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN; 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 > SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN; 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; Pacific; Indian; North Atlantic; Sea ice; Alaska
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This collection contains drifting buoy data collected from May 1984 through October 1998 from buoys deployed by the National Data Buoy Center, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi. Some of the data were collected as part of the Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere (TOGA) project. The data were processed by NODC and are currently available in NODC F156 Drifting Buoy file format. Drifters are expendable systems launched from ships or aircraft into specific ocean areas. As they drift in response to ocean currents and winds, they make measurements of the atmospheric pressure, air and sea temperature, wind speed, and wind direction. 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.