Website

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

Region(s)

SE

Summary

Sea surface variables

Parameters

Wind direction (deg), wind speed (m/s), wind gust (m/s), significant wave height (m), dominant wave period (sec.), average wave period (sec.), mean wave direction (degrees), sea level pressure (hPa), air temperature (degC), sea surface temperature (degC), dew point temperature (degC), visibility (naut. mi.), pressure tendency (hPa), and tide (rel. to MLLW, feet). Not all buoys collect all parameters.

Notes

Application

Publications

Start

1967

End

Current

Frequency

Continuous

Method

moored buoys, coastal-marine automated network (C-MAN) stations, acoustic doppler current profiler

Discontinuity

Data Location

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

Data Format

netCDF
NODC's NOAA Marine Environmental Buoy Database

Habitats

Water Column

SEACAR Citation

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); National Data Buoy Center. (2024). National Data Buoy Center. Updated 10/15/2024. Distributed by: SEACAR Data Discovery Interface, Office of Resilience and Coastal Protection, Florida Department of Environmental Protection. https://data.florida-seacar.org/programs/details/5

Alternative Citation

indicates priority attributes