Project: NOAA NDBC and NOAA NMFS SWFSC ERD Name: NOAA NMFS SWFSC ERD Email: erd.data@noaa.gov Institution: NOAA NDBC, NOAA NMFS SWFSC ERD InfoURL: https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/ Source URL: https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/ 20260316 NDBC Standard Meteorological Buoy Data, 1970-present Unknown tabular digital data Anywhere, MD, USA ERDDAP, version 2.30.0, at Set-me Institution https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.graph https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.subset NOAA NDBC and NOAA NMFS SWFSC ERD 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. See https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/measdes.shtml for a description of the measurements. The source data from NOAA NDBC has different column names, different units, and different missing values in different files, and other problems (notably, lots of rows with duplicate or different values for the same time point). This dataset is a standardized, reformatted, and lightly edited version of that source data, created by NOAA NMFS SWFSC ERD (email: erd.data at noaa.gov). Before 2020-01-29, this dataset only had the data that was closest to a given hour, rounded to the nearest hour. Now, this dataset has all of the data available from NDBC with the original time values. If there are multiple source rows for a given buoy for a given time, only the row with the most non-NaN data values is kept. If there is a gap in the data, a row of missing values is inserted (which causes a nice gap when the data is graphed). Also, some impossible data values are removed, but this data is not perfectly clean. This dataset is now updated every 5 minutes. This dataset has both historical data (quality controlled, before 2023-12-01T00:00:00Z) and near real time data (less quality controlled, which may change at any time, from 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z on). Unknown https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/ 19700226 20260408 ground condition Complete As needed -177.75 179.001 71.758 -55.0 GCMD Science Keywords air air_pressure_at_sea_level air_temperature atmosphere atmospheric average boundary buoy coastwatch data dew point dew_point_temperature direction dominant Earth Science > Atmosphere > Air Quality > Visibility Earth Science > Atmosphere > Altitude > Planetary Boundary Layer Height Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Pressure > Atmospheric Pressure Measurements Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Pressure > Pressure Tendency Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Pressure > Sea Level Pressure Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Pressure > Static Pressure Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Temperature > Air Temperature Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Temperature > Dew Point Temperature Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Water Vapor > Dew Point Temperature Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Winds > Surface Winds Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Sea Surface Temperature Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Waves > Significant Wave Height Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Waves > Swells Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Waves > Wave Period eastward eastward_wind from gust height identifier layer level measurements meridional meteorological meteorology name ndbc noaa northward northward_wind ocean oceans period planetary pressure quality sea sea level sea_surface_swell_wave_period sea_surface_swell_wave_significant_height sea_surface_swell_wave_to_direction sea_surface_temperature seawater significant speed sst standard static station surface surface waves surface_altitude swell swells temperature tendency tendency_of_air_pressure time vapor visibility visibility_in_air water wave waves wcn wind wind_from_direction wind_speed wind_speed_of_gust winds zonal CF Standard Name Table v70 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 None. 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. NOAA NDBC, NOAA NMFS SWFSC ERD NOAA NMFS SWFSC ERD Unknown Mailing and Physical Address
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Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown erd.data@noaa.gov https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.graph Web page to make a customized map or graph of the data HTML Contributor Name: NOAA NDBC Contributor Role: Source of data. Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Around the 25th of each month, erd.data@noaa.gov downloads the latest yearly and monthly historical .txt.gz files from https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/data/historical/stdmet/ and generates one historical .nc file for each station. erd.data@noaa.gov also downloads all of the 45day near real time .txt files from https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/data/realtime2/ and generates one near real time .nc file for each station. Unknown Every 5 minutes, erd.data@noaa.gov downloads the list of latest data from all stations for the last 2 hours from https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/data/latest_obs/latest_obs.txt and updates the near real time .nc files. Unknown Point Point Set-me Institution Firstname Surname ERDDAP Administrator Mailing and Physical Address
123 Simons Ave.
Anywhere MD 12345 USA 555-555-5555 set-me@domain.com ERDDAP, version 2.30.0: get metadata; download data; make graphs and maps. 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. .asc 1 View OPeNDAP-style ISO-8859-1 comma-separated text. https://docs.opendap.org/index.php/UserGuideOPeNDAPMessages#ASCII_Service https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .croissant 1 Download the dataset croissant schema. https://docs.mlcommons.org/croissant/docs/croissant-spec.html https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .csv 1 Download a ISO-8859-1 comma-separated text table (line 1: names; line 2: units; ISO 8601 times). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .csv0 1 Download a ISO-8859-1 .csv file without column names or units. Times are ISO 8601 strings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .csvp 1 Download a ISO-8859-1 .csv file with line 1: name (units). Times are ISO 8601 strings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .das 1 View the dataset's metadata via an ISO-8859-1 OPeNDAP Dataset Attribute Structure (DAS). https://docs.opendap.org/index.php/UserGuideOPeNDAPMessages#Dataset_Attribute_Structure https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .dataTable 1 A JSON file formatted for use with the Google Visualization client library (Google Charts). https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/reference#dataparam https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .dds 1 View the dataset's structure via an ISO-8859-1 OPeNDAP Dataset Descriptor Structure (DDS). https://docs.opendap.org/index.php/UserGuideOPeNDAPMessages#Dataset_Descriptor_Structure https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .dods 1 OPeNDAP clients use this to download the data in the DODS binary format. https://docs.opendap.org/index.php/UserGuideOPeNDAPMessages#Data_Transmission https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .esriCsv 1 Download a ISO_8859_1 .csv file for ESRI's ArcGIS 9.x and below (separate date and time columns). https://support.esri.com/technical-article/000012745 https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .fgdc 1 View the dataset's UTF-8 FGDC .xml metadata. https://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standards-projects/metadata/base-metadata/index_html https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .geoJson 1 Download longitude,latitude,otherColumns data as a UTF-8 GeoJSON .json file. http://wiki.geojson.org/Main_Page https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .htmlTable 1 View a UTF-8 .html web page with the data in a table. Times are ISO 8601 strings. https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .iso19115 1 View the dataset's ISO 19115/19139 UTF-8 .xml metadata using the version default for this server. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geospatial_metadata https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .iso19115_2 1 View the dataset's ISO 19115-2/19139 UTF-8 .xml metadata. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geospatial_metadata https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .iso19115_3_2016 1 View the dataset's ISO 19115-3:2016 UTF-8 .xml metadata. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geospatial_metadata https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .iso19139_2007 1 View the dataset's ISO 19139:2007 UTF-8 .xml metadata. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geospatial_metadata https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .itx 1 Download an ISO-8859-1 Igor Text File. Each response column becomes a wave. https://www.wavemetrics.net/doc/igorman/II-09%20Data%20Import%20Export.pdf https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .json 1 View a table-like UTF-8 JSON file (missing value = 'null'; times are ISO 8601 strings). https://www.json.org/ https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .jsonlCSV 1 View a UTF-8 JSON Lines CSV file without column names (mv = 'null'; times are ISO 8601 strings). https://jsonlines.org/ https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .jsonlCSV1 1 View a UTF-8 JSON Lines CSV file with column names on line 1 (mv = 'null'; times are ISO 8601 strings). https://jsonlines.org/ https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .jsonlKVP 1 View a UTF-8 JSON Lines file with Key:Value pairs (missing value = 'null'; times are ISO 8601 strings). https://jsonlines.org/ https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .mat 1 Download a MATLAB binary file. https://www.mathworks.com/ https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .nc 1 Download a flat, table-like, NetCDF-3 binary file with COARDS/CF/ACDD metadata. https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/ https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .ncCF 1 Download a NetCDF-3 CF Discrete Sampling Geometries file (Contiguous Ragged Array). https://cfconventions.org/Data/cf-conventions/cf-conventions-1.8/cf-conventions.html#discrete-sampling-geometries https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .ncCFHeader 1 View the UTF-8 header (the metadata) for the .ncCF file. https://linux.die.net/man/1/ncdump https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .ncCFMA 1 Download a NetCDF-3 CF Discrete Sampling Geometries file (Multidimensional Array). https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/netcdf-templates https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .ncCFMAHeader 1 View the UTF-8 header (the metadata) for the .ncCFMA file. https://linux.die.net/man/1/ncdump https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .ncHeader 1 View the UTF-8 header (the metadata) for the NetCDF-3 .nc file. https://linux.die.net/man/1/ncdump https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .nccsv 1 Download a NetCDF-3-like 7-bit ASCII NCCSV .csv file with COARDS/CF/ACDD metadata. https://erddap.github.io/docs/user/nccsv-1.20 https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .nccsvMetadata 1 View the dataset's metadata as the top half of a 7-bit ASCII NCCSV .csv file. https://erddap.github.io/docs/user/nccsv-1.20 https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .ncoJson 1 Download a UTF-8 NCO lvl=2 JSON file with COARDS/CF/ACDD metadata. https://nco.sourceforge.net/nco.html#json https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .odvTxt 1 Download longitude,latitude,time,otherColumns as an ISO-8859-1 ODV Generic Spreadsheet File (.txt). https://odv.awi.de/en/documentation/ https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .parquet 1 Download as a parquet file. Metadata contains column names ("column_names") and units ("column_units"). https://parquet.apache.org/ https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .parquetWMeta 1 Download as a parquet file with detailed metadata. https://parquet.apache.org/ https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .tsv 1 Download a ISO-8859-1 tab-separated text table (line 1: names; line 2: units; ISO 8601 times). https://jkorpela.fi/TSV.html https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .tsv0 1 Download a ISO-8859-1 .tsv file without column names or units. Times are ISO 8601 strings. https://jkorpela.fi/TSV.html https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .tsvp 1 Download a ISO-8859-1 .tsv file with line 1: name (units). Times are ISO 8601 strings. https://jkorpela.fi/TSV.html https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .wav 1 Download a .wav audio file. All columns must be numeric and of the same type. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .xhtml 1 View a UTF-8 XHTML (XML) file with the data in a table. Times are ISO 8601 strings. https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html .kml 1 View a .kml file, suitable for Google Earth. https://developers.google.com/kml/ https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.graph .largePdf 1 View a large .pdf image file with a graph or map. https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/about-adobe-pdf.html https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.graph .largePng 1 View a large .png image file with a graph or map. http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/ https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.graph .pdf 1 View a standard, medium-sized .pdf image file with a graph or map. https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/about-adobe-pdf.html https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.graph .png 1 View a standard, medium-sized .png image file with a graph or map. http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/ https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.graph .smallPdf 1 View a small .pdf image file with a graph or map. https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/about-adobe-pdf.html https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.graph .smallPng 1 View a small .png image file with a graph or map. http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/ https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.graph .transparentPng 1 View a .png image file (just the data, without axes, landmask, or legend). http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/ https://qa-erddap.riddc.brown.edu/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.graph None 20260408 Set-me Institution Firstname Surname ERDDAP Administrator Mailing and Physical Address
123 Simons Ave.
Anywhere MD 12345 USA 555-555-5555 set-me@domain.com Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata FGDC-STD-012-2002 universal time None. 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.