NOAA Ship Fairweather Underway Meteorological Data (delayed ~10 days for quality control) are from the Shipboard Automated Meteorological and Oceanographic System (SAMOS) program. IMPORTANT: ALWAYS USE THE QUALITY FLAG DATA! Each data variable s metadata includes a qcindex attribute which indicates a character number in the flag data. ALWAYS check the flag data for each row of data to see which data is good (flag= Z ) and which data isn t. For example, to extract just data where time (qcindex=1), latitude (qcindex=2), longitude (qcindex=3), and airTemperature (qcindex=12) are good data, include this constraint in your ERDDAP query: flag=~ ZZZ........Z.* in your query. =~ indicates this is a regular expression constraint. The Z s are literal characters. In this dataset, Z indicates good data. The . s say to match any character. The * says to match the previous character 0 or more times. See the tutorial for regular expressions at www.vogella.de/articles/JavaRegularExpressions/article.html
NOAA Ship Fairweather Underway Meteorological Data, Quality Controlled
Shipboard Automated Meteorological and Oceanographic System (SAMOS)