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Station 51542 - TAO Buoy Adrift
Owned and maintained by National Data Buoy Center
Drifting Buoy
Air temp height: 3 m above site elevation
Anemometer height: 4 m above site elevation
Sea temp depth: 1 m below water line
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Links which are specific to this station are listed below:
Data for last 45 days: No data available.
- Historical data (data descriptions)
- Search historical meteorological data for observations that meet your threshold conditions
Some data files have been compressed with the GNU gzip program.
The weekly status report and the weekly maintenance report also provide valuable station information.
Note that the payload types and the station locations occasionally change.
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