gov.noaa.nodc:GDAC-Drifting-Buoy-MEDS eng utf8 series NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information ncei.info@noaa.gov https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact HTTPS NOAA Contact Information Information for contacts at NCEI. information custodian 2026-04-02T17:05:35Z ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) Drifting and moored buoy data observed since 1985 and assembled by the Global Data Assembly Center for Drifting Buoy Data, Canada 2001-04-16 publication 2026-03-01 revision 1986 creation NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information gov.noaa.nodc:GDAC-Drifting-Buoy-MEDS NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information ncei.info@noaa.gov https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact HTTPS NCEI Contact Information Information for contacts at NCEI. information publisher Roger Menard Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Marine Environmental Data Section (MEDS) menard@meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca http://www.meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/isdm-gdsi/index-eng.html HTTP Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Marine Environmental Data Section (MEDS) website Institution web page information resourceProvider Luc Bujold Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Marine Environmental Data Section (MEDS) Luc.Bujold@dfo-mpo.gc.ca http://www.meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/isdm-gdsi/index-eng.html HTTP Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Marine Environmental Data Section (MEDS) website Institution web page information resourceProvider Jean Gagnon Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Marine Environmental Data Section (MEDS) http://www.meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/isdm-gdsi/index-eng.html HTTP Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Marine Environmental Data Section (MEDS) website Institution web page information resourceProvider John F. Garrett Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Institute of Ocean Sciences resourceProvider Mathieu Ouellet Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Marine Environmental Data Section (MEDS) Mathieu.Ouellet@dfo-mpo.gc.ca http://www.meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/isdm-gdsi/index-eng.html HTTP Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Marine Environmental Data Section (MEDS) website Institution web page information resourceProvider Gerald P. Lesblam Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Marine Environmental Data Section (MEDS) http://www.meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/isdm-gdsi/index-eng.html HTTP Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Marine Environmental Data Section (MEDS) website Institution web page information resourceProvider Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Institute of Ocean Sciences resourceProvider Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Marine Environmental Data Section (MEDS) http://www.meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/isdm-gdsi/index-eng.html HTTP Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Marine Environmental Data Section (MEDS) website Institution web page information resourceProvider Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Marine Environmental Data Section http://www.meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/isdm-gdsi/index-eng.html HTTP Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Marine Environmental Data Section (MEDS) website Institution web page information author Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Institute of Ocean Sciences contributor Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Marine Environmental Data Section (MEDS) http://www.meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/isdm-gdsi/index-eng.html HTTP Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Marine Environmental Data Section (MEDS) website Institution web page information contributor tableDigital As a Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP) Global Data Assembly Center (GDAC), and previously the Responsible National Oceanographic Data Center (RNODC), for Drifting Buoy Data, Marine Environmental Data Section (MEDS) submits a set of drifting buoy data to the U.S. NCEI each year. Buoy data is available in real time to platform operators via telecommunications providers and distributed on the Global Telecommunications System (GTS) of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in real-time. MEDS decodes data transmitted on the GTS in buoy code form. This may include moored buoy data as well. The DBCP is an international program coordinating the use of autonomous data buoys to observe atmospheric and oceanographic conditions, over ocean areas where few other measurements are taken. MEDS is a part of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Ecosystem and Oceans Science, Oceans Science Branch (OSB). MEDS was previously known as Integrated Science Data Management (ISDM), Oceanography and Scientific Data (OSD). The primary objective of the Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP) is to maintain and coordinate all components of the network of over 1250 drifting buoys and 400 moored buoys, which provides measurements such as sea-surface temperature, surface current velocity, air temperature and wind speed and direction. This data is useful for Weather and Ocean Forecasts and research and additionally can be used to complement or validate remotely-sensed data and operational models. The DBCP also explores and evaluates new technologies and uses those which prove successful to improve operations. completed historicalArchive NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information ncei.info@noaa.gov https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact HTTPS NCEI Contact Information Information for contacts at NCEI. information pointOfContact asNeeded https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/metadata/landing-page/bin/gfx?id=gov.noaa.nodc:GDAC-Drifting-Buoy-MEDS Preview graphic PNG 0000149 0000435 0000724 0001004 0001402 0002041 0002624 0014935 0038809 0052246 0062529 0070785 0085922 0104254 0117484 0126576 0138537 0156004 8600071 9100057 9100101 9100102 9300091 9800066 9900084 NCEI ACCESSION NUMBER 1999-05-19 publication AIR TEMPERATURE AIR TEMPERATURE - DRY BULB BAROMETRIC PRESSURE CURRENT DIRECTION CURRENT METER - SPEED CURRENT SPEED DEPTH - OBSERVATION DEPTH - SENSOR dew point HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE ICE - MOVEMENT - DIRECTION ICE - MOVEMENT - SPEED POSITION - GEOGRAPHIC RELATIVE HUMIDITY SALINITY SALINITY - SURFACE WATER SEA STATE SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE SWELL HEIGHT SWELL PERIOD water depth WATER TEMPERATURE WAVE HEIGHT WAVE PERIOD WIND DIRECTION WIND SPEED theme NODC DATA TYPES THESAURUS buoy - drifting buoy buoy - moored buoy meteorological sensor instrument NODC INSTRUMENT TYPES THESAURUS current measurements current measurements - surface currents drifting buoy in situ laboratory analyses meteorological moored buoy physical profile surface measurements time series theme NODC OBSERVATION TYPES THESAURUS DRIFTING BUOYS OF CANADA DRIFTING BUOYS OF NEW ZEALAND DRIFTING BUOYS OF SOUTH AFRICA platform NODC PLATFORM NAMES THESAURUS Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Institute of Ocean Sciences Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Marine Environmental Data Section dataCentre NODC COLLECTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Institute of Ocean Sciences Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Marine Environmental Data Section dataCentre NODC SUBMITTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS FIRST GLOBAL GARP (Global Atmospheric Research Program) EXPERIMENT (FGGE) GULF OF MEXICO NOAA/NDBO COOP. DRIFTING BUOY International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP) Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic (PIRATA) Tropical Atmosphere Ocean/TRIANGLE TRANS-OCEAN BUOY NETWORK (TAO/TRITON) project NODC PROJECT NAMES THESAURUS Adriatic Sea Aegean Sea Alboran Sea Andaman Sea or Burma Sea Arabian Sea Arafura Sea Arctic Ocean Baffin Bay Balearic (Iberian) Sea Bali Sea Baltic Sea Banda Sea Barents Sea Bass Strait Bay of Bengal Bay of Biscay (Golfe de Gascogne) Bay of Fundy Beaufort Sea Bering Sea Bismarck Sea Black Sea Bristol Channel Caribbean Sea Caspian Sea Celebes Sea (Sulawesi Sea and Mindanao Sea) Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Chukchi Sea Coastal Waters of Alabama Coastal Waters of Florida Coastal Waters of Louisiana Coastal Waters of Mississippi Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia Coastal Waters of Texas Columbia River estuary - Washington/Oregon Coral Sea Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary Davis Strait East China Sea (Tung Hai) East Siberian Sea English Channel (La Manche) Flores Sea Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary Great Australian Bight Great Lakes Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Greenland Sea (including Iceland Sea and North Greenland Sea) Gulf of Aden Gulf of Alaska Gulf of Bothnia (Bay of Bothnia and Bothnian Sea) Gulf of California Gulf of Finland Gulf of Guinea Gulf of Mexico Gulf of Oman Gulf of Riga, Sound Sea Gulf of St. Lawrence Gulf of Suez Gulf of Thailand Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Halmahera Sea Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary Hudson Bay Hudson Strait Indian Ocean Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland Ionian Sea Irish Sea and St. George's Channel Japan Sea Jawa (Java) Sea Kaneohe Bay Kara Sea Kattegat, The Sound, Storebælt, Lillebælt Labrador Sea Laccadive Sea Laptev (or Nordenskjöld) Sea Ligurian Sea Lincoln Sea Malacca Straits Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin Molucca Sea Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Mozambique Channel National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa New York Bight North Atlantic Ocean North Greenland Sea North Pacific Ocean North Sea Northwestern Passages Norwegian Sea Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument Persian Gulf (Gulf of Iran), Strait of Hormuz Philippine Sea Red Sea Rio de la Plata Rose Atoll Marine National Monument Ross Sea San Diego Bay Sawu Sea Sea of Azov Sea of Marmara Sea of Okhotsk Selat Makasar (Makasar Strait) Seto Naikai (Inland Sea) Singapore Strait Skagerrak Solomon Sea South Atlantic Ocean South China Sea (Nan Hai) South Pacific Ocean Southern Ocean St. Lawrence River Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Strait of Gibraltar Sulu Sea Tasman Sea Timor Sea Tyrrhenian Sea World-Wide Distribution Yaquina Bay Yellow Sea (Hwang Hai) place NODC SEA AREA NAMES THESAURUS oceanography theme WMO_CategoryCode 2012-09-15 publication CA/DFO > Fisheries and Oceans, Canada CA/DFO/PR/SB/IOS > Institute of Ocean Sciences, Science Branch, Pacific Region, Fisheries and Oceans, Canada DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce dataCentre Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords 2026 revision 24 Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Greenbelt MD https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords HTTPS GCMD Keyword Forum Page Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. 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MEDS ASCII MEDS Character Format CSV F156 MULDARS Ocean Drifter Data Format (F156) 104138.256 https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/GDAC-Drifting-Buoy-MEDS HTTPS Web browser NCEI Dataset Landing Page Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. information https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/metadata/granule/geoportal/?from=0&size=10&esdsl=%7B%22query%22%3A%7B%22bool%22%3A%7B%22must%22%3A%5B%7B%22query_string%22%3A%7B%22analyze_wildcard%22%3Atrue%2C%22query%22%3A%22fileid%3AGDAC-Drifting-Buoy-MEDS.*%22%7D%7D%5D%7D%7D%7D#searchPanel HTTPS Web browser Granule Search Search for data granules belonging to this collection (a granule is the smallest aggregation of data that can be independently described and retrieved). search series NCEI Accession 0000149 v1.1 was published. 2001-04-16T04:00:00Z NCEI Accession 0000435 v1.1 was published. 2001-04-16T04:00:00Z NCEI Accession 0000724 v1.1 was published. 2002-05-14T15:55:42Z NCEI Accession 8600071 v1.1 was published. 2002-11-19T19:40:22Z NCEI Accession 9100057 v1.1 was published. 2002-11-19T19:40:22Z NCEI Accession 9100057 was revised and v2.2 was published. 2002-11-19T19:40:22Z NCEI Accession 9100101 v1.1 was published. 2002-11-19T19:40:22Z NCEI Accession 9100102 v1.1 was published. 2002-11-19T19:40:22Z NCEI Accession 9100102 was revised and v2.2 was published. 2002-11-19T19:40:22Z NCEI Accession 9300091 v1.1 was published. 2002-11-19T19:40:22Z NCEI Accession 9300091 was revised and v2.2 was published. 2002-11-19T19:40:22Z NCEI Accession 9800066 v1.1 was published. 2002-11-19T19:40:22Z NCEI Accession 9900084 v1.1 was published. 2002-11-19T19:40:22Z NCEI Accession 0001004 v1.1 was published. 2003-04-29T18:58:49Z NCEI Accession 0001402 v1.1 was published. 2004-03-26T16:00:35Z NCEI Accession 0002041 v1.1 was published. 2005-02-28T15:59:32Z NCEI Accession 0002624 v1.1 was published. 2006-04-04T19:06:35Z NCEI Accession 0014935 v1.1 was published. 2007-05-03T12:04:31Z NCEI Accession 0038809 v1.1 was published. 2008-02-11T16:37:50Z NCEI Accession 0052246 v1.1 was published. 2009-03-26T21:00:58Z NCEI Accession 0062529 v1.1 was published. 2010-03-04T21:44:06Z NCEI Accession 0070785 v1.1 was published. 2011-02-16T19:48:40Z NCEI Accession 0085922 v1.1 was published. 2012-02-24T20:20:00Z NCEI Accession 0000149 was revised and v1.2 was published. 2013-03-14T00:42:09Z NCEI Accession 0000724 was revised and v1.2 was published. 2013-03-16T00:20:01Z NCEI Accession 0000435 was revised and v1.2 was published. 2013-03-16T19:27:27Z NCEI Accession 0001004 was revised and v1.2 was published. 2013-03-17T01:24:53Z NCEI Accession 9300091 was revised and v2.3 was published. 2013-03-18T01:40:30Z NCEI Accession 9100057 was revised and v2.3 was published. 2013-03-19T15:32:42Z NCEI Accession 0104254 v1.1 was published. 2013-03-21T20:44:39Z NCEI Accession 0117484 v1.1 was published. 2014-05-07T20:20:23Z NCEI Accession 0126576 v1.1 was published. 2015-03-20T13:54:30Z NCEI Accession 9100057 was revised and v3.4 was published. 2015-10-27T19:51:15Z NCEI Accession 0052246 was revised and v2.2 was published. 2015-11-03T21:04:24Z NCEI Accession 0038809 was revised and v2.2 was published. 2015-11-03T21:27:17Z NCEI Accession 0014935 was revised and v2.2 was published. 2015-11-03T21:47:41Z NCEI Accession 0002624 was revised and v2.2 was published. 2015-11-03T22:02:54Z NCEI Accession 0002041 was revised and v2.2 was published. 2015-11-03T22:21:50Z NCEI Accession 0001004 was revised and v2.3 was published. 2015-11-03T22:29:06Z NCEI Accession 0000724 was revised and v2.3 was published. 2015-11-03T22:34:49Z NCEI Accession 0000435 was revised and v2.3 was published. 2015-11-03T22:39:46Z NCEI Accession 0000149 was revised and v2.3 was published. 2015-11-03T22:43:32Z NCEI Accession 0001402 was revised and v2.2 was published. 2015-11-03T22:51:14Z NCEI Accession 0138537 v1.1 was published. 2015-12-01T19:42:45Z NCEI Accession 9300091 was revised and v3.4 was published. 2016-01-19T15:47:39Z NCEI Accession 0156004 v1.1 was published. 2016-08-18T17:55:31Z NCEI Accession 0156004 was revised and v2.2 was published. 2016-09-08T17:45:23Z NCEI Accession 9100057 was revised and v3.5 was published. 2023-02-14T16:20:35Z NCEI Accession 9100102 was revised and v2.3 was published. 2023-02-14T18:59:45Z NCEI Accession 9800066 was revised and v1.2 was published. 2023-02-16T08:46:36Z NCEI Accession 8600071 was revised and v1.2 was published. 2026-02-15T19:46:41Z NCEI Accession 9100101 was revised and v1.2 was published. 2026-03-01T17:47:44Z repository NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information NOAA created the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) by merging NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), and National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), including the National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC), per the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, Public Law 113-235. 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