NODC Standard Product: NOAA Marine environmental buoy database Webdisc (7 disc set) (NODC Accession 0090141)

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

Copies of these discs are currently available via the NODC Online Store at http://ols.nndc.noaa.gov/plolstore/plsql/olstore.prodspecific?prodnum=W00010-CDR-S0002

本套光盘数据集包含由美国国家海洋和大气管理局（National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA）国家数据浮标中心（National Data Buoy Center, NDBC）运营的锚定浮标与C-MAN站（C-MAN stations）采集的气象及海洋学历史归档数据。相关文件已提交至国家海洋数据中心（National Oceanographic Data Center, NODC），将以NODC的F291格式进行永久归档与分发。

为控制成本，光盘内的浮标数据文件已完成压缩处理。本套数据集共计7张光盘，涵盖1970年代初至1997年12月的共计16.5吉字节数据；用户可通过NODC官网获取更新后的数据、相关信息及时序图的在线链接。光盘内的数据文件与清单可通过互联网浏览器直接查看。

锚定浮标与C-MAN站所采集的核心观测参数包括气温、气压、风速、风向、阵风风速与海表温度。浮标（以及少数设于海上平台的C-MAN站）还可采集波浪数据，通常涵盖浪高、浪周期与波浪谱。自1980年代末起，部分浮标可提供定向波浪谱数据。所有数据与信息文件均采用ASCII格式存储。

光盘1：北大西洋北部浮标数据
光盘2：北大西洋中南部浮标数据
光盘3：墨西哥湾浮标数据
光盘4：五大湖浮标数据
光盘5：美国东太平洋海岸（西海岸）南部浮标数据
光盘6：美国东太平洋海岸（西海岸）北部浮标数据
光盘7：阿拉斯加、夏威夷及其他太平洋海域浮标数据

目前可通过NODC线上商店（网址：http://ols.nndc.noaa.gov/plolstore/plsql/olstore.prodspecific?prodnum=W00010-CDR-S0002）获取本套光盘的副本。