TAO/TRITON, RAMA, and PIRATA Buoys, Quarterly, Total Heat Flux

This dataset has quarterly Total Heat Flux 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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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 2000-05-16T12:00:00+00:00/2015-07-16T12:00:00+00:00
Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
  • amerigeo
  • amerigeoss
  • atmosphere-atmospheric-radiation-heat-flux
  • buoys
  • centered
  • ckan
  • depth
  • flux
  • geo
  • geoss
  • heat
  • heat-flux
  • identifier
  • latitude
  • longitude
  • national
  • noaa
  • north-america
  • oceans-ocean-heat-budget-heat-flux
  • pirata
  • pmel
  • quality
  • quarterly
  • rama
  • station
  • surfacedownwardheatfluxinseawater
  • tao
  • tao-triton
  • time
  • total
  • triton
  • united-states
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 2025-11-22T13:12:25.958156
metadata_modified 2025-11-22T13:12:25.958160
notes This dataset has quarterly Total Heat Flux 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 32
title TAO/TRITON, RAMA, and PIRATA Buoys, Quarterly, Total Heat Flux