TAO/TRITON, RAMA, and PIRATA Buoys, Daily, ADCP

This dataset has daily Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) water currents data from the TAO/TRITON (Pacific Ocean, http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/), RAMA (Indian Ocean, http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/rama/), and PIRATA (Atlantic Ocean, http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/pirata/) arrays of moored buoys which transmit oceanographic and meteorological data to shore in real-time via the Argos satellite system. These buoys are major components of the CLIVAR climate analysis project and the GOOS, GCOS, and GEOSS observing systems. Daily averages are computed starting at 00:00Z and are assigned an observation time of 12:00Z. ADCP data are available only after mooring recoveries, which are scheduled on an annual basis. For more information, see http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/proj_over/proj_over.html .

Data and Resources

Field Value
accessLevel public
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identifier pmelTaoDyAdcp
language {en-US}
modified 2015-09-02
programCode {006:057}
publisher NOAA PMEL, TAO/TRITON, RAMA, PIRATA (Point of Contact)
resource-type Dataset
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source_hash 53f265844af5dab2dc0b4a5ff430ffacf60d6a21
source_schema_version 1.1
temporal 1988-05-16T12:00:00+00:00/2012-11-04T12:00:00+00:00
Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
  • adcp
  • amerigeo
  • amerigeoss
  • buoys
  • centered
  • circulation
  • ckan
  • currents
  • daily
  • depth
  • eastward
  • eastwardseawatervelocity
  • geo
  • geoss
  • identifier
  • latitude
  • longitude
  • national
  • noaa
  • north-america
  • northward
  • northwardseawatervelocity
  • ocean
  • oceans
  • oceans-ocean-circulation-ocean-currents
  • pirata
  • pmel
  • quality
  • rama
  • sea
  • seawater
  • station
  • tao
  • tao-triton
  • time
  • triton
  • united-states
  • velocity
  • water
isopen False
license_id notspecified
license_title License not specified
maintainer TAO Project Office/NOAA/PMEL
maintainer_email Dai.C.McClurg@noaa.gov
metadata_created 2025-11-20T22:57:20.840554
metadata_modified 2025-11-20T22:57:20.840558
notes This dataset has daily Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) water currents data from the TAO/TRITON (Pacific Ocean, http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/), RAMA (Indian Ocean, http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/rama/), and PIRATA (Atlantic Ocean, http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/pirata/) arrays of moored buoys which transmit oceanographic and meteorological data to shore in real-time via the Argos satellite system. These buoys are major components of the CLIVAR climate analysis project and the GOOS, GCOS, and GEOSS observing systems. Daily averages are computed starting at 00:00Z and are assigned an observation time of 12:00Z. ADCP data are available only after mooring recoveries, which are scheduled on an annual basis. For more information, see http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/proj_over/proj_over.html .
num_resources 6
num_tags 39
title TAO/TRITON, RAMA, and PIRATA Buoys, Daily, ADCP