NOAA/PMEL Ocean Climate Stations Moorings

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.<br/><br/>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.

海洋气候站（OCS）项目的使命是通过自主平台进行气象和海洋测量。经过校准、质量控制以及详尽记录的气候测量数据可在OCS网页及OceanSITES全球数据汇编中心（GDACs）获取，且在完整数据集下载发布之前，即可获得近乎实时的数据。OCS通过大数据计划提供的测量数据源自于位于黑潮延伸区（32°N 145°E）和阿拉斯加湾（50°N 145°W）的高纬度锚定浮标。KEO和Papa浮标分别于2004年和2007年启动，它们测量了一系列表面和次表层关键海洋变量。表面测量包括气温、相对湿度、短波和长波辐射、气压、风速和降雨量，而次表层仪器则包括温度、盐度和海洋流。单个浮标部署被拼接成连续的时间序列，并与OceanSITES GDACs同步，进而与BDP对接。