DART Ocean Moored Buoys Metadata & Glossary

Air/Ocean Data from NOAA Ocean Moored Buoys provided by Environmental Research Division, NOAA Fisheries SWFSC, ERDDAP services NDBC Standard Meteorological Buoy Data, 1970-present, ERDDAP Information, ERD, NOAA Fisheries SWFSC

As a value added data product, PFEL provides processed moored buoy data. These data contain hourly and daily mean values of air temperature, sea temperature, surface atmospheric pressure, wind speed, and wind direction. Sources of the data are 22 different NOAA NDBC moored buoys along the North American west coast. The data has been processed from the raw hourly data files. The processed buoy data is updated semi-annually by PFEL.

Glossary

V Wind and U Wind: The vector wind northward and eastward components, respectively. Winds are in "ocean convention", i.e., direction blowing to.
Wind Speed: Daily average speed is calculated by meaning the hourly speeds rather than from the daily mean; it differs from the V Wind and U Wind speed.

Please refer to the National Data Buoy Center's web page on moored buoys for more information.