Identification

Title

Forest Oil Weather Station Data

Alternative title(s)

88.061

Abstract

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.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data.eol.ucar.edu//dataset/88.061

protocol: https

name: Forest Oil Weather Station Data homepage

description: Dataset homepage

https://data.eol.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/codiac/fgr_form/id=88.061

protocol: https

name: Forest Oil Weather Station Data Data Order Form

description: Dataset order request form. Data files are made available via FTP.

function: order

Unique resource identifier

code

88.061

codeSpace

Dataset language

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

dataset

originating controlled vocabulary

title

Resource Type

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2014-10-16

Keyword set

keyword value

Ocean Weather Stations

Weather Stations

Keyword set

keyword value

Surface

Land Based

Keyword set

keyword value

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > DEW POINT TEMPERATURE

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > DEW POINT TEMPERATURE

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND DIRECTION

originating controlled vocabulary

title

Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2018-02-27

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-93.68000

East bounding longitude

-93.66000

North bounding latitude

28.13000

South bounding latitude

28.11000

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

End position

2005-08-29T02:00:00Z

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2006-07-18T12:13:51Z

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

none

Limitations on public access

none

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

EOL Data Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

datahelp@eol.ucar.edu

web address

https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Responsible party

organisation name

National Data Buoy Center (NDBC), NOAA

full postal address

John C. Stennis Space Center

Stennis Space Center

39529-6000

USA

email address

web address

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov

name: homepage

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

EOL Data Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

datahelp@eol.ucar.edu

web address

https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2024-03-08T22:01:23Z

Metadata language

eng; USA