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

This dataset has monthly 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. Monthly data is an average of daily values collected during a month. A minimum of 15 daily values are required to compute a monthly average. 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
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identifier pmelTaoMonAdcp
language {en-US}
modified 2015-08-19
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programCode {006:057}
publisher NOAA PMEL, TAO/TRITON, RAMA, PIRATA (Point of Contact)
resource-type Dataset
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temporal 1988-05-16T12:00:00+00:00/2012-10-16T12:00:00+00:00
Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
  • adcp
  • amerigeo
  • amerigeoss
  • buoys
  • centered
  • circulation
  • ckan
  • currents
  • depth
  • eastward
  • eastwardseawatervelocity
  • geo
  • geoss
  • identifier
  • latitude
  • longitude
  • monthly
  • 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 2025-11-22T21:15:04.851243
metadata_modified 2025-11-22T21:15:04.851247
notes This dataset has monthly 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. Monthly data is an average of daily values collected during a month. A minimum of 15 daily values are required to compute a monthly average. 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, Monthly, ADCP