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Dataset Title:	TAO/TRITON, RAMA, and PIRATA Buoys, Daily, Position
Institution:	NOAA PMEL, TAO/TRITON, RAMA, PIRATA   (Dataset ID: pmelTaoDyPos)
Range:	longitude = 0.0 to 350.0°E, latitude = -25.0 to 21.0°N, time = 1980-03-07T12:00:00Z to (now?)
Information:	Summary | License | FGDC | ISO 19115 | Metadata | Background | Subset | Data Access Form

Graph Type:  lines linesAndMarkers markers sticks vectors X Axis:  wmo_platform_code longitude latitude time depth LON_502 QX_5502 LAT_500 QY_5500 Y Axis:  wmo_platform_code longitude latitude time depth LON_502 QX_5502 LAT_500 QY_5500 Color:  wmo_platform_code longitude latitude time depth LON_502 QX_5502 LAT_500 QY_5500   Constraints   Optional Constraint #1 Optional Constraint #2 array station wmo_platform_code longitude latitude time depth LON_502 QX_5502 LAT_500 QY_5500       != =~ <= >= = < >     != =~ <= >= = < >     array station wmo_platform_code longitude latitude time depth LON_502 QX_5502 LAT_500 QY_5500       != =~ <= >= = < >     != =~ <= >= = < >     array station wmo_platform_code longitude latitude time depth LON_502 QX_5502 LAT_500 QY_5500       != =~ <= >= = < >     != =~ <= >= = < >     array station wmo_platform_code longitude latitude time depth LON_502 QX_5502 LAT_500 QY_5500       != =~ <= >= = < >     != =~ <= >= = < >     array station wmo_platform_code longitude latitude time depth LON_502 QX_5502 LAT_500 QY_5500       != =~ <= >= = < >     != =~ <= >= = < >       Server-side Functions distinct() orderBy(      " array station wmo_platform_code longitude latitude time depth LON_502 QX_5502 LAT_500 QY_5500 array station wmo_platform_code longitude latitude time depth LON_502 QX_5502 LAT_500 QY_5500 array station wmo_platform_code longitude latitude time depth LON_502 QX_5502 LAT_500 QY_5500 array station wmo_platform_code longitude latitude time depth LON_502 QX_5502 LAT_500 QY_5500 ") orderByMax(" array station wmo_platform_code longitude latitude time depth LON_502 QX_5502 LAT_500 QY_5500 array station wmo_platform_code longitude latitude time depth LON_502 QX_5502 LAT_500 QY_5500 array station wmo_platform_code longitude latitude time depth LON_502 QX_5502 LAT_500 QY_5500 array station wmo_platform_code longitude latitude time depth LON_502 QX_5502 LAT_500 QY_5500 ")   Graph Settings Marker Type:  None Plus X Dot Square Filled Square Circle Filled Circle Up Triangle Filled Up Triangle    Size: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Color:  Color Bar: BlackBlueWhite BlackGreenWhite BlackRedWhite BlackWhite BlueWhiteRed BlueWideWhiteRed LightRainbow Ocean OceanDepth Rainbow Rainbow2 ReverseRainbow RedWhiteBlue RedWideWhiteBlue Spectrum Topography WhiteBlueBlack WhiteGreenBlack WhiteRedBlack WhiteBlack    Continuity: Continuous Discrete    Scale: Linear Log       Min:    Max:    N Sections: 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Draw the land mask: under (show topography) over (just show bathymetry) Y Axis Minimum:    Maximum:   Redraw the Graph (Please be patient. It may take a while to get the data.)   Optional: Then set the File Type: .asc .csv .csvp .das .dds .dods .esriCsv .fgdc .geoJson .graph .help .html .htmlTable .iso19115 .json .mat .nc .ncHeader .ncCF .ncCFMA .odvTxt .subset .tsv .tsvp .xhtml .kml .smallPdf .pdf .largePdf .smallPng .png .largePng .transparentPng and or view the URL: (Documentation / Bypass this form ) (File Type information)

Click on the map to specify a new center point. Zoom:  Time range: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 second(s) minute(s) hour(s) day(s) month(s) year(s)

Things You Can Do With Your Graphs

• Web page authors can embed a graph of the latest data in a web page using HTML <img> tags.
• Anyone can use Slide Sorter to build a personal web page that displays graphs of the latest data, each in its own, draggable slide.  

The Dataset Attribute Structure (.das) for this Dataset

Attributes {
 s {
  array {
    String ioos_category "Identifier";
    String long_name "Array";
  }
  station {
    String cf_role "timeseries_id";
    String ioos_category "Identifier";
    String long_name "Station";
  }
  wmo_platform_code {
    Int32 actual_range 0, 56055;
    String ioos_category "Identifier";
    String long_name "WMO Platform Code";
  }
  longitude {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Lon";
    Float32 actual_range 0.0, 350.0;
    String axis "X";
    Int32 epic_code 502;
    String ioos_category "Location";
    String long_name "Longitude";
    Float32 missing_value 1.0E35;
    String standard_name "longitude";
    String type "EVEN";
    String units "degrees_east";
  }
  latitude {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Lat";
    Float32 actual_range -25.0, 21.0;
    String axis "Y";
    Int32 epic_code 500;
    String ioos_category "Location";
    String long_name "Latitude";
    Float32 missing_value 1.0E35;
    String standard_name "latitude";
    String type "EVEN";
    String units "degrees_north";
  }
  time {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Time";
    Float64 actual_range 3.212784e+8, 1.36922394e+9;
    String axis "T";
    String ioos_category "Time";
    String long_name "Time";
    String standard_name "time";
    String time_origin "01-JAN-1970 00:00:00";
    String type "EVEN";
    String units "seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z";
  }
  depth {
    Float32 actual_range 0.0, 1.5;
    Int32 epic_code 3;
    String ioos_category "Location";
    String long_name "Depth";
    Float32 missing_value 1.0E35;
    String type "EVEN";
    String units "m";
  }
  LON_502 {
    Float32 actual_range -0.06900024, 465.1;
    Int32 epic_code 502;
    String FORTRAN_format "f10.4";
    String generic_name "lon";
    String ioos_category "Location";
    String long_name "Precise Longitude";
    Float32 missing_value 1.0E35;
    String name "LON";
    String standard_name "longitude";
    String units "degree_east";
  }
  QX_5502 {
    Byte actual_range 0, 2;
    String colorBarContinuous "false";
    Float64 colorBarMaximum 6.0;
    Float64 colorBarMinimum 0.0;
    String description 
"Quality: 0=missing data, 1=highest, 2=standard, 3=lower, 4=questionable,
5=bad, -9=contact contact Dai.C.McClurg@noaa.gov.  To get probably valid data
only, request QX_5502>=1 and QX_5502<=3.";
    Int32 epic_code 5502;
    String generic_name "qx";
    String ioos_category "Quality";
    String long_name "Longitude Quality";
    Byte missing_value -9;
    String name "QX";
  }
  LAT_500 {
    Float32 actual_range -24.815, 118.574;
    Int32 epic_code 500;
    String FORTRAN_format "f10.4";
    String generic_name "lat";
    String ioos_category "Location";
    String long_name "Precise Latitude";
    Float32 missing_value 1.0E35;
    String name "LAT";
    String standard_name "latitude";
    String units "degree_north";
  }
  QY_5500 {
    Byte actual_range 0, 2;
    String colorBarContinuous "false";
    Float64 colorBarMaximum 6.0;
    Float64 colorBarMinimum 0.0;
    String description 
"Quality: 0=missing data, 1=highest, 2=standard, 3=lower, 4=questionable,
5=bad, -9=contact contact Dai.C.McClurg@noaa.gov.  To get probably valid data
only, request QY_5500>=1 and QY_5500<=3.";
    Int32 epic_code 5500;
    String generic_name "qy";
    String ioos_category "Quality";
    String long_name "Latitude Quality";
    Byte missing_value -9;
    String name "QY";
  }
 }
  NC_GLOBAL {
    String cdm_data_type "TimeSeries";
    String cdm_timeseries_variables "array, station, wmo_platform_code, longitude, latitude";
    String Conventions "COARDS, CF-1.6, Unidata Dataset Discovery v1.0";
    String CREATION_DATE "07:08  3-MAY-2013";
    String creator_email "Dai.C.McClurg@noaa.gov";
    String creator_name "Dai. C. McClurg";
    String creator_url "http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/proj_over/proj_over.html";
    String Data_info "Contact Paul Freitag: 206-526-6727";
    String Data_Source "TAO Project Office/NOAA/PMEL";
    Float64 Easternmost_Easting 350.0;
    String featureType "TimeSeries";
    String File_info "Contact: Dai.C.McClurg@noaa.gov";
    Float64 geospatial_lat_max 21.0;
    Float64 geospatial_lat_min -25.0;
    String geospatial_lat_units "degrees_north";
    Float64 geospatial_lon_max 350.0;
    Float64 geospatial_lon_min 0.0;
    String geospatial_lon_units "degrees_east";
    String history 
"2013-05-03 Most recent downloading and reformatting of all cdf/sites/...
files from PMEL TAO's FTP site by bob.simons at noaa.gov.
Since then, recent data has been updated every day.
2013-05-24T04:44:08Z (local files)
2013-05-24T04:44:08Z http://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/tabledap/pmelTaoDyPos.das";
    String infoUrl "http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/proj_over/proj_over.html";
    String institution "NOAA PMEL, TAO/TRITON, RAMA, PIRATA";
    String keywords 
"buoys, daily, depth, identifier, noaa, pirata, pmel, position, precise,
quality, rama, station, tao, time, triton";
    String keywords_vocabulary "GCMD Science Keywords";
    String license 
"The data may be used and redistributed for free but is not intended
for legal use, since it may contain inaccuracies. Neither the data
Contributor, ERD, NOAA, nor the United States Government, nor any
of their employees or contractors, makes any warranty, express or
implied, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a
particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability for the accuracy,
completeness, or usefulness, of this information.";
    String Metadata_Conventions "COARDS, CF-1.6, Unidata Dataset Discovery v1.0";
    Float64 Northernmost_Northing 21.0;
    String project "TAO/TRITON, RAMA, PIRATA";
    String Request_for_acknowledgement 
"If you use these data in publications or presentations, please acknowledge
the TAO Project Office of NOAA/PMEL. Also, we would appreciate receiving a
preprint and/or reprint of publications utilizing the data for inclusion in
our bibliography. Relevant publications should be sent to: TAO Project
Office, NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, 7600 Sand Point Way NE,
Seattle, WA 98115";
    String sourceUrl "(local files)";
    Float64 Southernmost_Northing -25.0;
    String standard_name_vocabulary "CF-12";
    String subsetVariables "array, station, wmo_platform_code, longitude, latitude";
    String summary 
"This dataset has daily Position 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.  Daily averages are computed starting at 00:00Z and
are assigned an observation 'time' of 12:00Z.  For more information, see
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/proj_over/proj_over.html .";
    String time_coverage_end "2013-05-22T11:59:00Z";
    String time_coverage_start "1980-03-07T12:00:00Z";
    String title "TAO/TRITON, RAMA, and PIRATA Buoys, Daily, Position";
    Float64 Westernmost_Easting 0.0;
  }
}

Using tabledap to Request Data and Graphs from Tabular Datasets

The URL specifies what you want: the dataset, a description of the graph or the subset of the data, and the file
type for the response.

• (easy) You can get data by using the dataset's Data Access Form or Subset form.
  They make the URL for you.
• (easy) You can make a graph or map by using the dataset's Make A Graph form. It makes the URL for you.
• (not hard) You can bypass the forms and get the data or make a graph or map by generating the URL by
  hand or with a computer program or script.

Tabledap request URLs must be in the form
   http://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/tabledap/datasetID.fileType{?query}
For example,
   http://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/tabledap/erdGlobecBottle.htmlTable?longitude,latitude,time,bottle_posn,temperature1&time>=2002-08-17T00:00:00Z&time<=2002-08-19T20:18:00Z
Thus, the query is often a comma-separated list of desired variable names, followed by a collection of
constraints (e.g., variable<value), each preceded by '&' (which is interpreted as "AND").

For details, see the tabledap Documentation.