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 31.374m N, 70d 33.960m W SE of Gloucester. NERACOOS buoy A0136 was deployed from 2016-07-07 20:20:00 until 2017-06-27 16:11:00 UTC. Oceanographic near-surface measurements of ocean current speed and direction at a depth of 2 meters were taken hourly. 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=5 buffer_type=aanderaa 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,dan.codiga@mwra.org,croesler@bowdoin.edu contributor_name=NERACOOS,Gulf of Maine Research Institute,Massachusetts Water Resource Authority,Bowdoin College contributor_role=funder,distributor,funder,collaborator contributor_role_vocabulary=https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/G04/current/ contributor_url=http://neracoos.org,http://www.gmri.org,http://www.mwra.org,http://www.bowdoin.edu Conventions=CF-1.8,ACDD-1.3,IOOS-1.2 date_metadata_modified=2023-12-01T13:51:27Z delta_t=60 depth_datum=Sea Level Easternmost_Easting=-70.5645 ending_time=1.4985792E9 ending_time_string=2017-06-27T16:00:00Z featureType=TimeSeries geospatial_bounds=POINT (-70.5655 42.5232) geospatial_bounds_crs=EPSG:4326 geospatial_bounds_vertical_crs=EPSG:5831 geospatial_lat_max=42.5277 geospatial_lat_min=42.5183 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=2.0 geospatial_vertical_min=2.0 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 history=2023-12-01T13:51Z created file. merged from (A0136.aanderaa.o2_percent.realtime.nc,)

id=A0136.currents.002m.merged_20231201T135127.206.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 > Current/Wind Meters > CURRENT METERS 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=2017-06-27T16:00:00Z magnetic_variation=-16.0 metadata_link=https://oceandata.umeoce.maine.edu/buoy/A01/metadata mooring_history=2016-07-07T20:20Z deployed by the R/V Connecticut 2016-07-07T21:00Z (s/n=UMEMS026) Wave direction and tilt invalid from microstrain directional wave sensor. 2016-07-07T21:00Z (accelerometer) (s/n=UMECB122) Wave data from summit accelerometer flagged as invalid (invalid memory address in data logger program). 2016-09-11T00:00Z (sbe16) (s/n=SBESC6384) Data from SBE16+/trans at 52m becoming intermittent. 2016-10-01T00:00Z (s/n=GILWM070210) Intermittent spiking seen on primary wind sensor (Gill), generally observed at speeds > 25 kts. 2016-12-10T00:00Z (s/n=UMECB120) Backup GOES buffers became corrupt despite valid checksums. 2016-12-12T00:00Z (s/n=UMECB120) Primary cellphone tranmssions stopped from the buoy. Attempts to contact the phone were unsuccessful although phone was visible on the AT&T network. 2016-12-15T21:06Z (s/n=UMECB120) Normal communications resumed from this buoy (both cell and Goes). 2017-01-30T14:00Z (sbe16) (s/n=SBESC6384) Last data received from 52 SBE16/transmissometer. Talk-through attempts showed a response from the SBE44 but nothing from the SBE16. 2017-02-19T05:40Z (met) (s/n=AANVS746) Visiblity sensor flagged as invalid (reads too low). 2017-03-25T00:00Z (met) (s/n=RMYWM46272) Data from backup RMYoung wind sensor appears erratic (noisy and too high). 2017-05-22T00:00Z (aanderaa) (s/n=AANCM686) Speeds appear nosiy and erratic. 2017-06-22T18:30Z (s/n=UMECB122) New program loaded into control box remotely; valid accelerometer wave data being received now from this buoy. 2017-06-25T16:07Z (sbe37) (s/n=SBEIM1729) Last data recorded in post-recovery 20m SBEIM (realtime data stopped 27 June 2017). 2017-06-27T16:11Z recovered by the vessel Warren

mooring_site_desc=SE of Gloucester mooring_site_id=A0136 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=1 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=NERACOOS 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=42.5232 site_longitude=-70.5655 source=Ocean Data Acquisition Systems (ODAS) Buoy sourceUrl=(local files) Southernmost_Northing=42.5183 sponsor=NOAA standard_name_vocabulary=CF Standard Name Table v72 starting_time=1.4679252E9 starting_time_string=2016-07-07T21:00:00Z station_photo_url=http://gyre.umeoce.maine.edu/images/gomoosbuoy.jpg station_type=Surface Mooring time_coverage_duration=P354DT19H time_coverage_end=2024-11-09T04:00:00Z time_coverage_resolution=PT60M time_coverage_start=2001-07-10T03:00:00Z time_deployed=2016-07-07T20:20Zs time_recovered=2017-06-27T16:11Zs time_zone=UTC uuid=3c4e4bb2-8e18-4e27-b188-dd42d075776c Westernmost_Easting=-70.5681 wmo_platform_code=44029