Physical and meteorological data collected from non-federal stations assembled by the Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (SECOORA)

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This dataset contains oceanographic and surface meteorological data collected from non-Federal stations throughout the Southeast region of the United States, from the eastern side of Gulf of Mexico to South Atlantic Bight. The data is predominantly long time series at fixed moorings and buoys with a variety of instruments including CTDs, fluorometers, oxygen sensors, optical turbidity sensors, pH sensors, meteorological sensors, and water quality sensors. The data files are in netCDF format, following the Climate and Forecast metadata convention (CF) and the Attribute Convention for Data Discovery (ACDD). Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (SECOORA), which assembles data from sub-regional coastal and ocean observing systems, submitted the data to NCEI as part of the Integrated Ocean Observing System Data Assembly Centers (IOOS DACs) Data Stewardship Program.

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identifier	gov.noaa.nodc:IOOS-SECOORA
issued	2014-05-28T00:00:00.000+00:00
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modified	2024-02-23T00:00:00.000+00:00
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references	[ "https://secoora.org/" ]
rights	otherRestrictions
spatial	-76.949,24.917,-87.556,34.2071
temporal	2014-02-13T00:00:00+00:00/2014-02-13T00:00:00+00:00
title	Physical and meteorological data collected from non-federal stations assembled by the Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (SECOORA)

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