North Pacific Study Program Buoy and Platform Data, 1969-1971

Scripps Institute of Oceanography collected physical and meteorological data from buoys and fixed platforms for over two years. The North Pacific Study Program data spans from June 30, 1969, to September 14, 1971. An analog file is available from NODC user services, but digital links are not currently provided.

Use Cases

• Analyze historical ocean-atmosphere interactions based on the described physical and meteorological data.
• Study multi-year environmental trends in the North Pacific based on the 1969-1971 time series.
• Validate or calibrate regional climate models based on in-situ buoy and platform observations.
• Research marine weather patterns based on the meteorological data collected from fixed platforms.

Strengths

• Data collected by the authoritative Scripps Institute of Oceanography (SIO).
• Temporal coverage spans over two years, from June 1969 to September 1971.
• Includes data from multiple platform types: SIO Buoy and Fixed Platforms.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 1971-09-14 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Scripps Institute of Oceanography (SIO), archived by NOAA NCEI.

Collection Method

Collected from SIO Buoy and Fixed Platforms.

Time Range

1969-06-30 to 1971-09-14

Freshness

Historical dataset; last data point from 1971.

Geography

North Pacific Ocean