gov.noaa.ncdc:C00274 National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Unknown tabular digital data http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov Tropical Pacific Moored Buoy Data is historical digital data set DSI-1165, archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). This is meteorological and oceanographic data. DSI-1165 contains moored buoy data from the early years of the Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) project of the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL), which is still ongoing today. However, NCDC has data only for 1984-92. There was one reporting buoy in 1984. The numbers had increased to 53 by 1992. All buoys were in the equatorial Pacific Ocean between 9N and 8S latitude, and between 137E and 95W longitude. The buoys were called ATLAS (Autonomous Temperature Line Acquisition System) and were designed by PMEL. They made measurements of surface winds, air temperature, relative humidity, sea surface temperature, and ten subsurface water temperatures from a 500m long thermistor cable. To make a wide range of climatic data available to researchers and the public. data set C00274 ANEMOMETERS BATHYTHERMOGRAPHS HUMIDITY SENSORS HYGROMETERS TEMPERATURE SENSORS THERMISTORS THERMOMETERS WIND VANES ATLAS MOORINGS > Autonomous Temperature Line Acquisition System TAO/TRITON > Tropical Atmosphere Ocean/TRITON National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce 19841128 19921231 Ground Condition Complete As Needed 137.0 -95.0 9.0 -8.0 ISO 19115 Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere 004 oceans 014 DIF Discipline Keyword Thesaurus Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Meteorology Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Climatology Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Weather Earth Sciences > Ocean > Oceanography GCMD Sciences Keyword Valids EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > HUMIDITY EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE GCMD Location Valids EQUATORIAL PACIFIC OCEAN GCMD Location Valids SEA SURFACE TROPOSPHERE TAO/TRITON > Tropical Atmosphere Ocean/TRITON Autonomous Temperature Line Acquisition System ATLAS MOORINGS ANEMOMETERS TAO/TRITON > Tropical Atmosphere Ocean/TRITON Autonomous Temperature Line Acquisition System ATLAS MOORINGS HUMIDITY SENSORS TAO/TRITON > Tropical Atmosphere Ocean/TRITON Autonomous Temperature Line Acquisition System ATLAS MOORINGS HYGROMETERS TAO/TRITON > Tropical Atmosphere Ocean/TRITON Autonomous Temperature Line Acquisition System ATLAS MOORINGS WIND VANES TAO/TRITON > Tropical Atmosphere Ocean/TRITON Autonomous Temperature Line Acquisition System ATLAS MOORINGS TEMPERATURE SENSORS TAO/TRITON > Tropical Atmosphere Ocean/TRITON Autonomous Temperature Line Acquisition System ATLAS MOORINGS BATHYTHERMOGRAPHS TAO/TRITON > Tropical Atmosphere Ocean/TRITON Autonomous Temperature Line Acquisition System ATLAS MOORINGS THERMISTORS TAO/TRITON > Tropical Atmosphere Ocean/TRITON Autonomous Temperature Line Acquisition System ATLAS MOORINGS THERMOMETERS 1 None None Not provided Unknown Completeness information not available. Unknown Unknown The ATLAS data is subdivided into files, each one of which contains data for a single mooring location for a time period of one year or less. Data Format: Each file has a header consisting of two 80-character lines. The first header line gives the ATLAS mooring location, the time period included in the file, the number of data points, and the number of variables in the file. FIRST HEADER FILE POSITIONS: 0-7 ELEMENT: Location Identifier EXAMPLE: 'Location' POSITIONS: 10-14 ELEMENT: Latitude EXAMPLE: 2.00S POSITIONS: 17-22 ELEMENT: Longitude EXAMPLE: 110.00W POSITIONS: 27-30 ELEMENT: Time Identifier EXAMPLE: 'Time' POSITIONS: 33-64 ELEMENT: Time Period EXAMPLE: 0000 1 Jan 84 to 0000 31 DEC 84 POSITIONS: 66-84 ELEMENT: Number of data points and number of variables EXAMPLE: (34 points) (8 variables) In general, the file contains daily average data. Days for which there are no data values available are omitted from the listings. Therefore, the number of points in the file may be less than the number of days in the time period covered by the file. The second header line contains column titles which are descriptive of the data values in the data lines of the file. Dates are in the yymmdd format and are in UTC. Data variables on the file may include: Air Temperature (AIR), Zonal (WND-U) and Meridianal (WND-V) components of the wind, Sea Surface Temperature (SST) and Sub Surface Temperatures (Tnnn where nnn is the depth). SECOND HEADER FILE Column Title: Date Column Width: 6 Example: 851109 Column Title: Air Column Width: 5 Example: 24.06 Column Title: WND-U Column Width: 5 Example: 999.9 Column Title: WND-V Column Width: 5 Example: 999.9 Column Title: SST Column Width: 5 Example: 26.49 Column Title: T20 Column Width: 5 Example: 26.54 Column Title: T40 Column Width: 5 Example: 26.59 Column Title: T60 Column Width: 5 Example: 26.53 Column Title: T100 Column Width: 5 Example: 17.80 Column Title: T120 Column Width: 5 Example: 13.76 Column Title: T140 Column Width: 5 Example: 12.50 Column Title: T180 Column Width: 5 Example: 11.27 Column Title: T300 Column Width: 5 Example: 10.08 Column Title: T500 Column Width: 5 Example: 7.98 *Some files have different temperature levels. The 1984 data, which only covers the one buoy, does not include surface variables. Winds are in meters per second (m/s) and are in oceanographic convention, e.g., positive U means the wind is blowing towards the East. When no wind data were available, data values of 999.9 are substituted. Temperatures are in degrees Centigrade. When temperature data were missing, data values of 99.9 are substituted. None National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Customer Service Mailing and physical

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