NOAA/PMEL Ocean Climate Stations Moorings

Description

The mission of the Ocean Climate Stations (OCS) Project is to make meteorological and oceanic measurements from autonomous platforms. Calibrated, quality-controlled, and well-documented climatological measurements are available on the OCS webpage and the OceanSITES Global Data Assembly Centers (GDACs), with near-realtime data available prior to release of the complete, downloaded datasets.

OCS measurements served through the Big Data Program come from OCS high-latitude moored buoys located in the Kuroshio Extension (32°N 145°E) and the Gulf of Alaska (50°N 145°W). Initiated in 2004 and 2007, the respective moored buoys, KEO and Papa, measure a suite of surface and subsurface essential ocean variables. The surface suite includes air temperature, relative humidity, shortwave and longwave radiation, barometric pressure, winds, and rain, while subsurface instrumentation includes temperature, salinity, and ocean currents. Individual buoy deployments are stitched together into a continuous time-series, which is synced to the OceanSITES GDACs, and subsequently, to BDP.

Update Frequency

KEO and Papa data on BDP are synchronized with the OceanSITES Global Data Assembly Center periodically.

License

Open Data. There are no restrictions on the use of this data.

Documentation

https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/ocs/ http://www.oceansites.org https://dods.ndbc.noaa.gov/oceansites/

Managed By

See all datasets managed by NOAA.

Contact

For questions regarding data content or quality, users are directed to the OCS webpage (https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/ocs/). For any questions regarding data delivery or any general questions regarding the NOAA Open Data Dissemination (NODD) Program, email the NODD Team at nodd@noaa.gov.
We also seek to identify case studies on how NOAA data is being used and will be featuring those stories in joint publications and in upcoming events. If you are interested in seeing your story highlighted, please share it with the NODD team by emailing nodd@noaa.gov

How to Cite

NOAA/PMEL Ocean Climate Stations Moorings was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-ocean-climate-stations.

Usage Examples

Publications

• OCS publications - All OCS-relevant publications are updated at the URL below. by PMEL