TITLE: Mesonet Mesonet National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) data [JOSS]
     
CONTACTS:

Steve Williams
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder CO 80307-3000
Email sfw@ucar.edu

303-497-8164 (voice)
970-491-8293 (fax)

1.0  DATA SET OVERVIEW
     

This data set contains hourly resolution surface meteorological data 
from the NDBC moored buoy Coastal Marine (C-MAN) networks.  These stations
are located in and around the Great Lakes.  This data set covers the period
from 26 May to 31 July 2003.  The data are in columnar ASCII format.


2.0  INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION


2.1  Station Locations

Station ID     Location                    Latitude  Longitude  Elev (m) Payload
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45001          Mid Superior                  48.07     -87.78      183    DACT
45002          N Michigan                    45.33     -86.42      176    DACT
45003          N Huron                       45.35     -82.84      177    VEEP
45004          E Superior                    47.57     -86.55      183    VEEP
45005          W Erie                        41.68     -82.40      174    DACT
45006          W Superior                    47.35     -89.83      183    VEEP
45007          S Michigan                    42.68     -87.03      176    DACT
45008          S Huron                       44.28     -82.42      177    VEEP
DISW3          Devils Island, WI             47.08     -90.73      192    DACT
LSCM4          Lake St. Clair, MI            42.47     -82.76      179    VEEP
PILM4          Passage Island, MI            48.22     -88.37      195    VEEP
ROAM4          Rock of Ages, MI              47.87     -89.31      183    DACT
SBIO1          South Bass Island, OH         41.63     -82.84      177    MARS
SGNW3          Sheboygan, WI                 43.75     -87.69      176    DACT
STDM4          Stannard Rock, MI             47.18     -87.22      183    DACT

2.2  Instrumentation

Information on the measurements and units are available in the
file: measdes.shtml included with your order.

Information on the payloads is available in the file: rsa.shtml 
included with your order.

For further information see: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov


3.0  DATA COLLECTION AND PROCESSING


Information on the collection and processing of these data can be
found at the NDBC page:
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov

UCAR/JOSS conducted no processing or quality control on these data.


4.0  DATA FORMAT AND FILE NAMING


4.1  Data Format
 
These data are in columnar ASCII  format. 

Times are UTC.  Data are in columnar ASCII format.  Parameters 
are included in the header portion of each data file.  Units can
be found in the file measdes.shtml included with your order.


4.2  File Naming conventions

iiiiimyyyy.txt

where:
      iiiii is the station id
      m is the month
      yyyy is the year



5.0  DATA REMARKS


None.


6.0  REFERENCES


None.