RAINEX: Shell Oil Platform Meteorological Data. Version 1.0

This data set contains hourly resolution surface meteorological and oceanographic data from the Shell Oil (http://www.shell.com) Platform weather stations. These data were retrieved from the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC). This data set includes data from the 2 stations located off the Texas Gulf of Mexico near Texas. This data set covers the period from 1 January to 31 December 2005. The data are in space delimited ASCII format. NCAR/EOL conducted no additional quality control on these data.