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RAINEX: Forest Oil Weather Station Data

Summary

This data set consists of a single file of hourly resolution surface meteorological and oceanographic data from the Forest Oil (http://www.forestoil.com) fixed structure weather station. The station is mainted by ESSI Corporation (http:www.essicorp.com) and is located off the Texas coast from Galveston. These data were retrieved from the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC). This data set covers the period from 1 January to 29 August 2005. The data are in space delimited ASCII format. NCAR/EOL has conducted no additional quality control of these data.

Data access

ORDER data to made available for download

Additional information

Identifier	DOI: https://doi.org/10.26023/S78T-PCV6-8T10
Data Quality	final
Versions	1.0 (2006-07-18)
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Related projects	RAINEX: Hurricane Rainband and Intensity Change Experiment
Spatial Type	point
Frequency	hourly
Language	English
Categories	Land Based Surface
Platforms	Ocean Weather Stations Weather Stations
Instruments	Automated Weather System
GCMD Science Keywords	AIR TEMPERATURE DEW POINT TEMPERATURE DEW POINT TEMPERATURE WIND DIRECTION WIND SPEED Expand keywords
Documentation	ocean_forestoil.txt [4 KiB]
Related links	info: RAINEX Missions homepage: RAINEX Project Page info: www.essicorp.com info: www.forestoil.com

Temporal coverage

Begin datetime	2005-01-01 00:00:00
End datetime	2005-08-29 02:00:00

Spatial coverage

Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: 28.13, Minimum (South) Latitude: 28.11
Minimum (West) Longitude: -93.68, Maximum (East) Longitude: -93.66

Primary point of contact information

NOAA National Data Buoy Center

Additional contact information

author: NOAA National Data Buoy Center
originator: NOAA National Data Buoy Center

Citation

NOAA National Data Buoy Center. 2006. RAINEX: Forest Oil Weather Station Data. Version 1.0. null. https://doi.org/10.26023/S78T-PCV6-8T10. Accessed 14 Dec 2025.

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