Great Lakes Coastal Buoy Meteorological and Oceanographic Records 2014-2020

UMD Coastal Buoy data collected by the University of Minnesota - Duluth provides oceanographic and surface meteorological measurements for the Great Lakes region. The dataset spans over six years, from July 2014 to October 2020, and was assembled and submitted by the Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS) to NOAA's NCEI.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in water temperature and air pressure from buoy sensor time-series.
• Correlating wind speed and wave height measurements to study storm events in the Great Lakes.
• Modeling lake thermal stratification using depth-profile data from the moored station.
• Validating regional climate models with in-situ surface meteorological observations.

Strengths

• Over six years of continuous temporal coverage from 2014-07-01 to 2020-10-05.
• Data follows CF and ACDD metadata conventions, ensuring standardized discovery and interoperability.
• Regular monthly updates were added to the accession during the collection period.

Limitations

• Data collection ended in October 2020, limiting analysis of recent conditions.
• Specific parameters, column names, and data volume (rows/size) are unknown from the description.
• Geographic coverage is limited to the single UMD Coastal Buoy location in the Great Lakes.

Provenance

Source

University of Minnesota - Duluth (data collector), Great Lakes Observing System - GLOS (data assembler), NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) (archive).

Collection Method

Collected from an in-situ moored station (UMD Coastal Buoy).

Time Range

2014-07-01 to 2020-10-05

Freshness

Final update was 2020-10-05; no ongoing updates indicated.

Geography

Great Lakes region, United States, at the UMD Coastal Buoy location.