NDBC_BUOY_1997_present eng UTF8 dataset service Jay Harris NOAA/AOML +1 305-361-4326 4301 Rickenbacker Cswy Miami FL 33149 USA jay.harris@noaa.gov pointOfContact 2026-03-05 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata Part 2 Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) 3 column row temporal NDBC Standard Meteorological Buoy Data, 1970-present 2025-01-16 creation 2025-01-16 issued erddap.aoml.noaa.gov/hdb NDBC_BUOY_1997_present NOAA NMFS SWFSC ERD erd.data@noaa.gov https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/ information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information originator NOAA NDBC contributor The National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) distributes meteorological data from moored buoys maintained by NDBC and others. Moored buoys are the weather sentinels of the sea. They are deployed in the coastal and offshore waters from the western Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean around Hawaii, and from the Bering Sea to the South Pacific. NDBC's moored buoys measure and transmit barometric pressure; wind direction, speed, and gust; air and sea temperature; and wave energy spectra from which significant wave height, dominant wave period, and average wave period are derived. Even the direction of wave propagation is measured on many moored buoys. See https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/measdes.shtml for a description of the measurements. The source data from NOAA NDBC has different column names, different units, and different missing values in different files, and other problems (notably, lots of rows with duplicate or different values for the same time point). This dataset is a standardized, reformatted, and lightly edited version of that source data, created by NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC) ERD (email: erd.data at noaa.gov). Before 2020-01-29, this dataset only had the data that was closest to a given hour, rounded to the nearest hour. Now, this dataset has all of the data available from NDBC with the original time values. If there are multiple source rows for a given buoy for a given time, only the row with the most non-NaN data values is kept. If there is a gap in the data, a row of missing values is inserted (which causes a nice gap when the data is graphed). Also, some impossible data values are removed, but this data is not perfectly clean. This dataset is now updated every 5 minutes. This dataset has both historical data (quality controlled, before 2022-10-01T00:00:00Z) and near real time data (less quality controlled, which may change at any time, from 2022-10-01T00:00:00Z on). NOAA NMFS SWFSC ERD erd.data@noaa.gov https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/ information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information pointOfContact 1970-present air apd atmosphere atmospheric atmp average bar boundary buoy center coast coastwatch control data dew dew point dewp dewpoint direction dominant dpd earth eastward erd fisheries gst gust identifier layer level marine measurements meridional meteorological meteorology mwd name national ndbc near nmfs noaa node northward nrt ocean oceans period planetary point present pressure ptdy quality real science sea sea level seawater service significant southwest speed sst standard static station surface surface waves swell swells swfsc swh temperature tendency tide vapor vis visibility water wave waves wcn west wind winds wspd wspu wspv wtmp wvht zonal theme Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Waves > Wave Speed/Direction Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Waves > Wave Period Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Waves > Swells Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Waves > Significant Wave Height Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Sea Surface Temperature Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Winds > Surface Winds Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Water Vapor > Dew Point Temperature Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Temperature > Surface Air Temperature Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Temperature > Dew Point Temperature Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Temperature > Air Temperature Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Pressure > Static Pressure Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Pressure > Sea Level Pressure Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Pressure > Pressure Tendency Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Pressure > Atmospheric Pressure Measurements Earth Science > Atmosphere > Altitude > Planetary Boundary Layer Height Earth Science > Atmosphere > Air Quality > Visibility theme GCMD Science Keywords NOAA NDBC and NOAA NMFS SWFSC ERD project longitude latitude time wind_from_direction wind_speed wind_speed_of_gust sea_surface_wave_significant_height sea_surface_swell_wave_period sea_surface_swell_wave_period sea_surface_wave_to_direction air_pressure_at_sea_level air_temperature sea_surface_temperature dew_point_temperature visibility_in_air tendency_of_air_pressure surface_altitude eastward_wind northward_wind theme CF Standard Name Table v70 The data may be used and redistributed for free but is not intended for legal use, since it may contain inaccuracies. Neither the data Contributor, ERD, NOAA, nor the United States Government, nor any of their employees or contractors, makes any warranty, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness, of this information. NOAA NDBC and NOAA NMFS SWFSC ERD largerWorkCitation project Unidata Common Data Model TimeSeries largerWorkCitation project eng geoscientificInformation 1 -177.75 179.001 -55.0 71.758 seconds 1972-10-01T00:00:00Z 2025-02-12T22:02:00Z NDBC Standard Meteorological Buoy Data, 1970-present 2025-01-16 creation 2025-01-16 issued NOAA NMFS SWFSC ERD erd.data@noaa.gov https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/ information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information originator NOAA NDBC contributor The National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) distributes meteorological data from moored buoys maintained by NDBC and others. Moored buoys are the weather sentinels of the sea. They are deployed in the coastal and offshore waters from the western Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean around Hawaii, and from the Bering Sea to the South Pacific. NDBC's moored buoys measure and transmit barometric pressure; wind direction, speed, and gust; air and sea temperature; and wave energy spectra from which significant wave height, dominant wave period, and average wave period are derived. Even the direction of wave propagation is measured on many moored buoys. See https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/measdes.shtml for a description of the measurements. The source data from NOAA NDBC has different column names, different units, and different missing values in different files, and other problems (notably, lots of rows with duplicate or different values for the same time point). This dataset is a standardized, reformatted, and lightly edited version of that source data, created by NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC) ERD (email: erd.data at noaa.gov). Before 2020-01-29, this dataset only had the data that was closest to a given hour, rounded to the nearest hour. Now, this dataset has all of the data available from NDBC with the original time values. If there are multiple source rows for a given buoy for a given time, only the row with the most non-NaN data values is kept. If there is a gap in the data, a row of missing values is inserted (which causes a nice gap when the data is graphed). Also, some impossible data values are removed, but this data is not perfectly clean. This dataset is now updated every 5 minutes. This dataset has both historical data (quality controlled, before 2022-10-01T00:00:00Z) and near real time data (less quality controlled, which may change at any time, from 2022-10-01T00:00:00Z on). ERDDAP tabledap 1 -177.75 179.001 -55.0 71.758 seconds 1972-10-01T00:00:00Z 2025-02-12T22:02:00Z tight ERDDAPtabledapDatasetQueryAndAccess https://erddap.aoml.noaa.gov/hdb/erddap/tabledap/NDBC_BUOY_1997_present ERDDAP:tabledap ERDDAP-tabledap ERDDAP's tabledap service (a flavor of OPeNDAP) for tabular (sequence) data. Add different extensions (e.g., .html, .graph, .das, .dds) to the base URL for different purposes. download NDBC Standard Meteorological Buoy Data, 1970-present 2025-01-16 creation 2025-01-16 issued NOAA NMFS SWFSC ERD erd.data@noaa.gov https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/ information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information originator NOAA NDBC contributor The National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) distributes meteorological data from moored buoys maintained by NDBC and others. Moored buoys are the weather sentinels of the sea. They are deployed in the coastal and offshore waters from the western Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean around Hawaii, and from the Bering Sea to the South Pacific. NDBC's moored buoys measure and transmit barometric pressure; wind direction, speed, and gust; air and sea temperature; and wave energy spectra from which significant wave height, dominant wave period, and average wave period are derived. Even the direction of wave propagation is measured on many moored buoys. See https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/measdes.shtml for a description of the measurements. The source data from NOAA NDBC has different column names, different units, and different missing values in different files, and other problems (notably, lots of rows with duplicate or different values for the same time point). This dataset is a standardized, reformatted, and lightly edited version of that source data, created by NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC) ERD (email: erd.data at noaa.gov). Before 2020-01-29, this dataset only had the data that was closest to a given hour, rounded to the nearest hour. Now, this dataset has all of the data available from NDBC with the original time values. If there are multiple source rows for a given buoy for a given time, only the row with the most non-NaN data values is kept. If there is a gap in the data, a row of missing values is inserted (which causes a nice gap when the data is graphed). Also, some impossible data values are removed, but this data is not perfectly clean. This dataset is now updated every 5 minutes. This dataset has both historical data (quality controlled, before 2022-10-01T00:00:00Z) and near real time data (less quality controlled, which may change at any time, from 2022-10-01T00:00:00Z on). OPeNDAP 1 -177.75 179.001 -55.0 71.758 seconds 1972-10-01T00:00:00Z 2025-02-12T22:02:00Z tight OPeNDAPDatasetQueryAndAccess https://erddap.aoml.noaa.gov/hdb/erddap/tabledap/NDBC_BUOY_1997_present OPeNDAP:OPeNDAP OPeNDAP An OPeNDAP service for tabular (sequence) data. Add different extensions (e.g., .html, .das, .dds) to the base URL for different purposes. download NDBC Standard Meteorological Buoy Data, 1970-present 2025-01-16 creation 2025-01-16 issued NOAA NMFS SWFSC ERD erd.data@noaa.gov https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/ information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information originator NOAA NDBC contributor The National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) distributes meteorological data from moored buoys maintained by NDBC and others. Moored buoys are the weather sentinels of the sea. They are deployed in the coastal and offshore waters from the western Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean around Hawaii, and from the Bering Sea to the South Pacific. NDBC's moored buoys measure and transmit barometric pressure; wind direction, speed, and gust; air and sea temperature; and wave energy spectra from which significant wave height, dominant wave period, and average wave period are derived. Even the direction of wave propagation is measured on many moored buoys. See https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/measdes.shtml for a description of the measurements. The source data from NOAA NDBC has different column names, different units, and different missing values in different files, and other problems (notably, lots of rows with duplicate or different values for the same time point). This dataset is a standardized, reformatted, and lightly edited version of that source data, created by NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC) ERD (email: erd.data at noaa.gov). Before 2020-01-29, this dataset only had the data that was closest to a given hour, rounded to the nearest hour. Now, this dataset has all of the data available from NDBC with the original time values. If there are multiple source rows for a given buoy for a given time, only the row with the most non-NaN data values is kept. If there is a gap in the data, a row of missing values is inserted (which causes a nice gap when the data is graphed). Also, some impossible data values are removed, but this data is not perfectly clean. This dataset is now updated every 5 minutes. This dataset has both historical data (quality controlled, before 2022-10-01T00:00:00Z) and near real time data (less quality controlled, which may change at any time, from 2022-10-01T00:00:00Z on). ERDDAP Subset 1 -177.75 179.001 -55.0 71.758 seconds 1972-10-01T00:00:00Z 2025-02-12T22:02:00Z tight ERDDAP_Subset https://erddap.aoml.noaa.gov/hdb/erddap/tabledap/NDBC_BUOY_1997_present.subset search Subset Web page to facilitate selecting subsets of the dataset download physicalMeasurement station String Station Identifier time double Time wd short Wind Direction wspd float Wind Speed gst float Wind Gust Speed wvht float Wave Height dpd float Wave Period, Dominant apd float Wave Period, Average mwd short Wave Direction bar float Air Pressure atmp float Air Temperature wtmp float SST dewp float Dewpoint Temperature vis float Station Visibility ptdy float Pressure Tendency tide float Water Level wspu float Wind Speed, Zonal wspv float Wind Speed, Meridional Jay Harris NOAA/AOML +1 305-361-4326 4301 Rickenbacker Cswy Miami FL 33149 USA jay.harris@noaa.gov distributor OPeNDAP DAP/2.0 https://erddap.aoml.noaa.gov/hdb/erddap/tabledap/NDBC_BUOY_1997_present.html order Data Subset Form ERDDAP's version of the OPeNDAP .html web page for this dataset. Specify a subset of the dataset and download the data via OPeNDAP or in many different file types. download https://erddap.aoml.noaa.gov/hdb/erddap/tabledap/NDBC_BUOY_1997_present.graph order Make-A-Graph Form ERDDAP's Make-A-Graph .html web page for this dataset. Create an image with a map or graph of a subset of the data. mapDigital dataset Around the 25th of each month, erd.data@noaa.gov downloads the latest yearly and monthly historical .txt.gz files from https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/data/historical/stdmet/ and generates one historical .nc file for each station. erd.data@noaa.gov also downloads all of the 45day near real time .txt files from https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/data/realtime2/ and generates one near real time .nc file for each station. Every 5 minutes, erd.data@noaa.gov downloads the list of latest data from all stations for the last 2 hours from https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/data/latest_obs/latest_obs.txt and updates the near real time .nc files. 2024-01-31T16:37:00Z https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/ 2024-01-31T16:37:00Z https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.nc?station%2Clongitude%2Clatitude%2Ctime%2Cwd%2Cwspd%2Cgst%2Cwvht%2Cdpd%2Capd%2Cmwd%2Cbar%2Catmp%2Cwtmp%2Cdewp%2Cvis%2Cptdy%2Ctide%2Cwspu%2Cwspv&station=%22YGNN6%22 This record was created from dataset metadata by ERDDAP Version 2.25_1