TAO/TRITON, RAMA, and PIRATA Buoys, Quarterly, Dynamic Height

This dataset has quarterly Dynamic Height data (a measure of the elevation of the sea level, calculated by integrating the specific volume anomaly of the sea water between the sea surface and 500 m depth) 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. Quarterly data is an average of monthly values collected during a 3 month period. A minimum of 2 monthly values are required to compute a quarterly 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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modified 2015-08-19
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publisher NOAA PMEL, TAO/TRITON, RAMA, PIRATA (Point of Contact)
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temporal 1980-08-16T12:00:00+00:00/2015-07-16T12:00:00+00:00
Groups
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  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
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  • ckan
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  • geoss
  • identifier
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  • level
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  • noaa
  • north-america
  • oceans-sea-surface-topography-sea-surface-height
  • pirata
  • pmel
  • quality
  • quarterly
  • rama
  • sea
  • sea-level
  • seasurfaceheight
  • station
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  • time
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  • united-states
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maintainer TAO Project Office/NOAA/PMEL
maintainer_email Dai.C.McClurg@noaa.gov
metadata_created 2025-11-21T07:10:18.529595
metadata_modified 2025-11-21T07:10:18.529599
notes This dataset has quarterly Dynamic Height data (a measure of the elevation of the sea level, calculated by integrating the specific volume anomaly of the sea water between the sea surface and 500 m depth) 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. Quarterly data is an average of monthly values collected during a 3 month period. A minimum of 2 monthly values are required to compute a quarterly 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 31
title TAO/TRITON, RAMA, and PIRATA Buoys, Quarterly, Dynamic Height