Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory Meteorological Data

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has built the Martha's
Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO) near South Beach in Edgartown,
Massachusetts. The project was initiated by scientists in the Coastal
and Ocean Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (COFDL) at WHOI, who will use the
observatory to study coastal atmospheric and oceanic processes.

Data from the observatory are downloaded from the shore lab every
twenty minutes: 5, 25 & 45 minutes after the hour. They are processed
to provide burst averaged statistics, with the most current data
presented on the MVCO home page. Summary files of the meteorological
and oceanographic data are provided in the MetDat_s files. Historical
burst averaged data can be retrieved via a web interface (JGOFS
format) or anonymous ftp (mvcodata.whoi.edu).

The time (Yday) is GMT (UTM) at the start of the burst, where 1.5
represents
noon on January 1.

Anonymous ftp ("ftp://mvcodata.whoi.edu/pub/mvcodata/data/") access
provides
ascii flat files including year-to-date data in files named
YYYY_InstID.CNN
(eg., 2002_Campmt.C03) or data from each day as YYYYyday_InstID.CNN
(eg.,
2002122_Campmt.C03). The Yday 1.5 represents noon on January 1. Data are
available to download. The user must navigate to the desired
Instrument_ID
(eg., Campmt_s) and the desired year (eg., 2000). Text files and header
files
define the contents of these data files. The year-to-date files can be
read
using one of the example Matlab m-files.

The web-interface ("http://mvcodata.whoi.edu/jg/dir/mvco/") provides
methods to
subset the data. Retrieved ascii data will contain a header at the top.
The
web-interface also provides interactive graphics (Simple X-Y plotting).