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Buoy Coastal Ocean Monitoring and Predicition System (COMPS) Data

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RAINEX

Summary

This data set contains hourly resolution surface meteorological and oceanographic data from the Coastal Ocean Monitoring and Prediction System (COMPS). COMPS is operated by the University of South Florida College of Marine Science. These data were retrieved from the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC). There are 14 stations within the network that provide meteorological observations. The stations are located along the gulf coast of Florida. This data set covers the period from 1 January to 31 December 2005. The data are in space delimited ASCII format. NCAR/EOL has conducted no additional quality control of these data.

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Additional information

Homepage	https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/88.060
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Related projects	RAINEX: Hurricane Rainband and Intensity Change Experiment
Spatial Type	point
Frequency	hourly
Language	English
Categories	Land Based Oceanography Surface
Platforms	Buoys Weather Stations
Instruments	Anemometers Automated Weather System Barometers
GCMD Science Keywords	AIR TEMPERATURE DEW POINT TEMPERATURE DEW POINT TEMPERATURE SEA LEVEL PRESSURE SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT TIDAL HEIGHT VISIBILITY WAVE PERIOD WAVE SPEED/DIRECTION WIND DIRECTION WIND SPEED Show 9 more... Expand keywords
Documentation	buoy_comps.txt [8 KiB]
Related links	info: RAINEX Missions

Temporal coverage

Begin datetime	2005-01-01 00:00:00
End datetime	2005-12-31 23:59:00

Spatial coverage

Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: 30.06, Minimum (South) Latitude: 25.08
Minimum (West) Longitude: -84.29, Maximum (East) Longitude: -81.09

Primary point of contact information

National Data Buoy Center (NDBC), NOAA

Additional contact information

author: University of South Florida
originator: National Data Buoy Center (NDBC), NOAA

Citation

Example citation following ESIP guidelines:

University of South Florida. 2007. Buoy Coastal Ocean Monitoring and Predicition System (COMPS) Data. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/88.060. Accessed 07 Oct 2022.

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