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The National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) established the Coastal-Marine Automated Network (C-MAN) for the National Weather Service in the early 1980's. NDBC has installed approximately 50 C-MAN stations on lighthouses, at capes and beaches, on near shore islands, and on offshore platforms. NDBC has also deployed over 100 moored (a.k.a., weather) buoys in coastal and offshore waters from the western Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean around Hawaii, and from the Bering Sea to the South Pacific. C-MAN and moored buoy data typically include barometric pressure, wind direction, speed and gust, and air temperature; however, some C-MAN stations are equipped to also measure seawater temperature, water level, waves, and relative humidity. Moored buoys measure wave energy spectra from which NDBC derives significant wave height, dominant wave period, and average wave period. In addition, many moored buoys measure the direction of wave propagation. In collaboration, NDBC and the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) -- formerly the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) -- are archiving these data from C-MAN and moored buoys. This collection is part of the collaboration and it contains both NODC F291 and netCDF (version 4) files with data collected from February 1970 through the present day.

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Format	Description	Link
0	Search for data granules belonging to this collection (a granule is the smallest aggregation of data that can be independently described and retrieved).	https://data.noaa.gov/onestop/collections/granules/AWbw41dXYJ6J3EnSGyHm
0	Information for contacts at NCEI.	https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0	NOAA Central Library: Technical Report	https://doi.org/10.25923/xe7t-ay83
0	Search for data by user-specified criteria and optionally download data.	https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/marine-environmental-buoy-database/
0	Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links.	https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/NDBC-CMANWx
0	Navigate directly to the URL for data access and direct download.	https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/oceans/ndbc/cmanwx/
0	Institution web page	https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
0	Institution web page	https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
0	Institution web page	https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
14	Institution web page	http://www.saic.com
0	Institution web page	https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
0	Institution web page	https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
0	Institution web page	https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
0	Institution web page	https://library.noaa.gov/
0	Institution web page	https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
0	journal article	https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0426(1987)004%3C0094:AFEONM%3E2.0.CO;2
21	technical document	https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0070493/data/0-data/hervey_index/index.html
0	journal article	https://doi.org/10.1029/JC095iC03p03373
0	related documentation	https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0070493
0	Institution web page	https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
0	Information for contacts at NCEI.	https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
33	official statement	https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0070493/data/0-data/Gilhousen_1986_MDS.pdf
0	Institution web page	https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
0	Institution web page	https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
0	Institution web page	https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
0	Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2023. GCMD Keywords, Version 16. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords	https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0	journal article	https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0426%281993%29010%3C0097%3ADWFEOT%3E2.0.CO%3B2
33	journal article	https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0070493/data/0-data/2ndWaves.pdf
0	journal article	https://doi.org/10.1109/JOE.1985.1145116
21	File format description	https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0070493/data/0-data/F291_format.html
0	Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2023. GCMD Keywords, Version 16. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords	https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0	Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2023. GCMD Keywords, Version 16. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords	https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0	Institution web page	https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
0	Institution web page	https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
0	Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2023. GCMD Keywords, Version 16. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords	https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
21	These data are available through a variety of services via a THREDDS (Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services) Data Server (TDS). Depending on the dataset, the TDS can provide WMS, WCS, DAP, HTTP, and other data access and metadata services as well. For more information on the TDS, see http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/thredds/current/tds/.	https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/thredds-ocean/catalog/ndbc/cmanwx/catalog.html
0	These data are available through the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). FTP is no longer supported by most internet browsers. You may copy and paste the FTP link to the data into an FTP client (e.g., FileZilla or WinSCP).	ftp://ftp-oceans.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data.nodc/ndbc/cmanwx/
33	quality control documentation	https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0070493/data/0-data/NDBCHandbookofAutomatedDataQualityControl2009.pdf
0	Institution web page	https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
0	Institution web page	https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
0	Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2023. GCMD Keywords, Version 16. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords	https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords

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Meteorological and oceanographic data collected from the National Data Buoy Center Coastal-Marine Automated Network (C-MAN) and moored (weather) buoys

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