TAO/TRITON, RAMA, and PIRATA Buoys, Monthly, Sea Surface Temperature

This dataset has monthly Sea Surface Temperature (SST) 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. This dataset contains realtime and delayed mode data (see the source variable). 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 pmelTaoMonSst
language {en-US}
modified 2015-08-19
programCode {006:057}
publisher NOAA PMEL, TAO/TRITON, RAMA, PIRATA (Point of Contact)
resource-type Dataset
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temporal 1977-11-16T12:00:00+00:00/2015-07-16T12:00:00+00:00
Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
  • amerigeo
  • amerigeoss
  • buoys
  • centered
  • ckan
  • depth
  • geo
  • geoss
  • identifier
  • latitude
  • longitude
  • monthly
  • national
  • noaa
  • north-america
  • ocean
  • oceans
  • oceans-ocean-temperature-sea-surface-temperature
  • pirata
  • pmel
  • quality
  • rama
  • sea
  • seasurfacetemperature
  • source
  • station
  • surface
  • tao
  • tao-triton
  • temperature
  • time
  • triton
  • united-states
isopen False
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license_title License not specified
maintainer TAO Project Office/NOAA/PMEL
maintainer_email Dai.C.McClurg@noaa.gov
metadata_created 2025-11-21T00:55:19.816564
metadata_modified 2025-11-21T00:55:19.816568
notes This dataset has monthly Sea Surface Temperature (SST) 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. This dataset contains realtime and delayed mode data (see the source variable). For more information, see http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/proj_over/proj_over.html .
num_resources 6
num_tags 33
title TAO/TRITON, RAMA, and PIRATA Buoys, Monthly, Sea Surface Temperature