Ocean observation data from the Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal & Ocean Observing Systems (NERACOOS). The NERACOOS region includes the northeast United States and Canadian Maritime provinces, as part of the United States Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS). These data are served by Unidata's Thematic Realtime Environmental Distributed Data Services (THREDDS) Data Server (TDS) in a variety of interoperable data services and output formats.

University of Maine real-time buoy observations in the Gulf of Maine at NERACOOS site A01 - Massachusetts Bay, located at 42d 31.404m N, 70d 33.972m W SE of Gloucester. GoMOOS buoy A0113 was deployed from 2005-01-05 20:30:00 until 2005-04-29 12:30:00 UTC. Sea surface wave measurements of significant wave height and dominant wave period are estimated from vertical accelerations measured hourly by a 3-axis accelerometer onboard the buoy. acknowledgment=The University of Maine Ocean Observing System (UMOOS) is funded in part through NERACOOS and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as a Regional Association within the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS). UMOOS is coordinated by the University of Maine's Physical Oceanography Group (PhOG). breakout_id=7 buffer_type=waves cdm_data_type=TimeSeries cdm_timeseries_variables=station, longitude, latitude clock_time=Center of period comment=University of Maine, Physical Oceanography Group contact=um_phog_dmac@umeoce.maine.edu contributor_email=info@neracoos.org,info@gmri.org contributor_name=NERACOOS,Gulf of Maine Research Institute contributor_role=funder,distributor contributor_role_vocabulary=https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/G04/current/ contributor_url=http://neracoos.org,http://www.gmri.org Conventions=CF-1.8,ACDD-1.3,IOOS-1.2 date_metadata_modified=2025-03-09T18:45:58Z delta_t=30 depth_datum=Sea Level Easternmost_Easting=-70.5645 ending_time=1.114776E9 ending_time_string=2005-04-29T12:00:00Z featureType=TimeSeries geospatial_bounds=POINT (-70.5662 42.5234) geospatial_bounds_crs=EPSG:4326 geospatial_bounds_vertical_crs=EPSG:5831 geospatial_lat_max=42.5277 geospatial_lat_min=42.5185 geospatial_lat_resolution=0.01 degrees geospatial_lat_units=degrees_north geospatial_lon_max=-70.5645 geospatial_lon_min=-70.5681 geospatial_lon_resolution=0.001 degrees geospatial_lon_units=degrees_east geospatial_vertical_max=0.0 geospatial_vertical_min=0.0 geospatial_vertical_positive=down geospatial_vertical_resolution=0.5 meter geospatial_vertical_units=m grid_mapping_epsg_code=EPSG:4326 grid_mapping_inverse_flattening=298.257223563 grid_mapping_long_name=coordinate_reference_system grid_mapping_longitude_of_prime_meridian=0.0 grid_mapping_name=latitude_longitude grid_mapping_semi_major_axis=6378137.0 gts_ingest=true id=A0113.waves.merged_20250309T184558.506.nc infoUrl=https://oceandata.umeoce.maine.edu/buoy/A01 institution=Physical Oceanography Group, School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine institution_url=http://gyre.umeoce.maine.edu instrument=In Situ/Laboratory Instruments > Gauges > WAVE HEIGHT GAUGES instrument_number=0 instrument_vocabulary=NASA/GCMD Instrument Keywords Version 8.1 ioos_ingest=true julian_day_convention=Julian date convention begins at 00:00:00 UTC on 17 November 1858 AD keywords_vocabulary=NASA/GCMD Science Keywords Version 8.1 last_modified=2005-04-29T12:00:00Z magnetic_variation=-16.3 metadata_link=https://oceandata.umeoce.maine.edu/buoy/A01/metadata mooring_history=2005-01-05T20:30Z (s/n=ALL) Mooring redeployed by R/V Argo Maine 2005-01-13T00:00Z (sbe37) (s/n=sbesc4165) Data from IM instsruments at 20m and 50m becoming intermittent 2005-01-14T09:00Z (sbe37) (s/n=SBEIM2563) Last data received from 20m SBE37. 2005-01-14T13:00Z (sbe16) (s/n=SBESC4125) Last data received from 50m SBE16+. 2005-01-23T10:00Z (accelerometer) (s/n=UMECB115) NOTE: Some invalid wave heights being computed during this storm, please use datya with caution. 2005-01-24T01:00Z (met) (s/n=AANVS323) Visibility data failed. 2005-01-24T02:00Z (met) (s/n=RMYWM60854) Wind speed data invalid due to icing from 1/24/0200z until 1/24/1600z. Present data appear valid. 2005-01-31T07:00Z (doppler) (s/n=RDIWK1849) Last data received from 4m RDIWK current profiler. 2005-02-26T21:00Z (met) (s/n=AANVS323) Visibility data appears to be valid. 2005-03-28T18:00Z (met) (s/n=RMYWM60854) Wind speed and direction readings appear invalid. 2005-04-29T12:30Z Recovered by RV Delaware II

mooring_site_desc=SE of Gloucester mooring_site_id=A0113 naming_authority=edu.maine ncei_template_version=NCEI_NetCDF_TimeSeries_Orthogonal_Template_v2.0 nco_openmp_thread_number=1 Northernmost_Northing=42.5277 number_observations_per_hour=2 operator_sector=academic platform=station platform_id=A01 platform_name=A01 - Massachusetts Bay platform_vocabulary=https://mmisw.org/ont/ioos/platform position_datum=WGS 84 principal_investigator=Dr. Neal R. Pettigrew principal_investigator_email=nealp@maine.edu principal_investigator_institution=University of Maine, School of Marine Sciences processing=merged processing_level=Realtime preliminary QC program=Integrated Ocean Observing System project=GoMOOS project_url=http://www.neracoos.org references=http://gyre.umeoce.maine.edu/data/gomoos/buoy/doc/buoy_system_doc/buoy_system/book1.html sea_name=Gulf of Maine site_id=A01 site_latitude=42.5234 site_longitude=-70.5662 source=Ocean Data Acquisition Systems (ODAS) Buoy sourceUrl=(local files) Southernmost_Northing=42.5185 sponsor=NOAA standard_name_vocabulary=CF Standard Name Table v72 starting_time=1.1049588E9 starting_time_string=2005-01-05T21:00:00Z station_photo_url=http://gyre.umeoce.maine.edu/images/gomoosbuoy.jpg station_type=Surface Mooring time_coverage_duration=P113DT15H time_coverage_end=2025-03-21T15:00:00Z time_coverage_resolution=PT30M time_coverage_start=2003-02-07T09:00:00Z time_deployed=2005-01-05T20:30Zs time_recovered=2005-04-29T12:30Zs time_zone=UTC uuid=5fdabea5-f2ad-4d70-9b48-49868f380261 Westernmost_Easting=-70.5681 wmo_platform_code=44029