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    • NODC Standard Product: NOAA Marine Environmental Buoy Database through December 1997 (7 disc set) (NCEI Accession 0090141)

    Metadata Updated: November 1, 2025

    This CD-ROM set contains the historic archive of meteorological and oceanographic data collected by moored buoys and C-MAN stations operated by the NOAA National Data Buoy Center (NDBC). The files are sent to the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) for permanent archiving and distribution in NODC's F291 format.

    To reduce costs, the buoy data files on the CD-ROMs have been compressed. This set consists of 7 discs containing 16.5 gigabytes of data from the early 1970's through December 1997, with online Internet links to updated data, information, and time series plots available on the NODC website. The data files and inventories on the discs can be viewed with an Internet browser.

    Principal measured 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. The 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. Since the late 1980s, some buoys have reported directional wave spectra. The data and information files are recorded in ASCII format.

    Disc 1 - Upper North Atlantic Buoys Disc 2 - Mid and Lower North Atlantic Buoys Disc 3 - Gulf of Mexico Buoys Disc 4 - Great Lakes Buoys Disc 5 - Lower Eastern US Coast Pacific Buoys Disc 6 - Upper Eastern US Coast Pacific Buoys Disc 7 - Alaska, Hawaii, and other Pacific Buoys

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    Metadata Date 2025-05-27T21:21:26Z
    Metadata Created Date December 4, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date November 1, 2025
    Reference Date(s) January 5, 2023 (publication)
    Frequency Of Update asNeeded

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    Temporal Extent Begin 1970-01-01
    Temporal Extent End 1997-12-31

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