TAO/TRITON, RAMA, and PIRATA Buoys, Quarterly, Evaporation Minus Precipitation

This dataset has quarterly Evaporation Minus Precipitation 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. 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 1997-05-16T12:00:00+00:00/2015-07-16T12:00:00+00:00
Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
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  • amerigeoss
  • amount
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  • atmosphere-precipitation-precipitation-amount
  • atmosphere-precipitation-precipitation-rate
  • buoys
  • centered
  • ckan
  • depth
  • evaporation
  • geo
  • geoss
  • identifier
  • latitude
  • longitude
  • meteorology
  • minus
  • national
  • noaa
  • north-america
  • pirata
  • pmel
  • precipitation
  • quality
  • quarterly
  • rain
  • rama
  • rate
  • station
  • tao
  • tao-triton
  • time
  • triton
  • united-states
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maintainer TAO Project Office/NOAA/PMEL
maintainer_email Dai.C.McClurg@noaa.gov
metadata_created 2025-11-20T03:08:58.894055
metadata_modified 2025-11-20T03:08:58.894060
notes This dataset has quarterly Evaporation Minus Precipitation 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. 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 35
title TAO/TRITON, RAMA, and PIRATA Buoys, Quarterly, Evaporation Minus Precipitation