@article{,
title= {noaa-ncei-ndbc-coastal-marine-automated-network},
journal= {},
author= {NOAA National Buoy Data Center},
year= {},
url= {https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/metadata/landing-page/bin/iso?id=gov.noaa.nodc:NDBC-CMANWx},
abstract= {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.

},
keywords= {    NOAA, NCEI, NDBC, C-MAN, automated buoy readings, barometric pressure, wind direction, wind speed, air temperature, water temperature, water level, waves, relative humidity},
terms= {},
license= {},
superseded= {}
}