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California - Quality-Controlled Reanalysis and Observational Data for Buoy (130), Morro Bay / Derived Data

Metadata Updated: June 11, 2023

Overview

This collection provides spatiotemporally paired reanalysis and satellite data to supplement the lidar buoy observations during the California deployments. Point time series of observed and reanalysis data are provided, using inverse distance weighting to geolocate the reanalysis data to the buoy location. Gridded time series of reanalysis data are provided, covering the California coast and extending into the Pacific Ocean. Satellite data in the coastal California region are also provided.

The reanalysis collection includes the Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications version 2 (MERRA-2), the Climate Forecast System version 2 (CFSv2), the North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR), the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Reanalysis version 5 (ERA5), and the analysis system of the Rapid Refresh (RAP). The satellite data collection is that of Ribal and Young (2019). All datasets are publicly available with the sources provided in the References section.

Data Quality

The observations provided are the processed versions buoy/buoy.z06.a0 and buoy/lidar.z06.a0. In December 2020, the developers of MERRA-2 and ERA5 reported issues with some months covering the buoy deployment period related to warm sea surface temperature biases and assimilation of anomalous snow depth observations, respectively. This collection includes only the reprocessed versions of MERRA-2 and ERA5 that have addressed the issues.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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Dates

Metadata Created Date April 26, 2022
Metadata Updated Date June 11, 2023

Metadata Source

Harvested from OpenEI data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date April 26, 2022
Metadata Updated Date June 11, 2023
Publisher Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO)
Maintainer
Doi 10.21947/1839076
Identifier https://data.openei.org/submissions/5636
Data First Published 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z
Data Last Modified 2022-05-04T00:00:00Z
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 019:20
Metadata Context https://openei.org/data.json
Metadata Catalog ID https://openei.org/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
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Data Quality True
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Harvest Source Id 7cbf9085-0290-4e9f-bec1-91653baeddfd
Harvest Source Title OpenEI data.json
Homepage URL https://a2e.energy.gov/data/buoy/reanalysis.z06.c0
License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Program Code 019:010
Projectnumber 67025
Projecttitle Wind Data Hub
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 937daad8fcdef8956d29b7f1276c0c2f4f4aea59
Source Schema Version 1.1

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