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Are you looking for recent monthly buoy data online?, or real-time observations from the National
Data Buoy Center?
The CD-ROMs contain meteorological and oceanographic data collected by moored buoys and C-MAN (Coastal-Marine Automated Network) stations operated by the NOAA National Data Buoy Center (NDBC). C-MAN stations are located on piers, offshore towers, lighthouses, and beaches with excellent exposure to the marine environment. The observations are transmitted, typically once each hour, through GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) to the National Weather Service Telecommunications Gateway, where the data are placed in meteorological codes for real-time transmission. After post-processing and quality control of the GOES messages, NDBC submits these data each month to the NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center for permanent storage in NODC's F291 format. These CD-ROM data are more complete and have undergone more quality control than the data transmitted in real-time. The real-time data for these stations can be obtained online from the National Data Buoy Center at www.ndbc.noaa.gov.
Station identifier, position, date, time, sampling duration, and sampling rate are reported for each series of measurements. Principal parameters reported by both moored buoys and C-MAN stations include air temperature and pressure, wind speed and direction, wind gust, and sea surface temperature. Some buoys (and a few C-MAN stations located on offshore platforms) also report wave data which usually includes wave height, wave period, and wave spectra.
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