Project Stratus

Sponsors
to NOAA Web site Principal funding is provided by (NOAA) Office of Climate Observations (OCO).
Data Links
Stratus XI:
Text files:
ASIMet1 - ASIMet2

OceanSITES:
NetCDF: ASIMet1 - ASIMet2
CDL: ASIMet1 - ASIMet2

Plots:
plot-1 or plot-2.
Stratus XII:
Text files:
Daily transmission: ASIMet1 - ASIMet2
Complete listing: ASIMet1 - ASIMet2

OceanSITES:
NetCDF: ASIMet1 - ASIMet2
CDL: ASIMet1 - ASIMet2

Plots:
Full-length plots: plot-1 or plot-2.
Weekly plots: plot-1 or plot-2.
See Also
PMEL's Stratus CO2 Measurements
NDBC's Stratus Wave Data

Real Time Data

Hourly averaged meteorological data for the current deployment of the Stratus buoy are recieved via Service Argos four times daily. Preliminary data is displayed in unedited form as time series and is available for download as ASCII files.

A note on resolution, and one on data formats.

Stratus XI

The eleventh Stratus buoy was deployed at about 19°S, 85°W from the R.V. Moana Wave on April 6. 2011 at 19:30 UTC. It was recovered from the R.V. Melville (MV-12-07) on May 29,2012 at 12:30 UTC.

ASIMet: plot-1       ASIMet plot-2


WAMDAS waves: plot


Stratus XII

The twelfth Stratus buoy was deployed at about 19°S, 85°W from the R.V. Melville (MV-12-07) on May 27, 2012 at 22:03 UTC.

Meteorology

Stratus meteorological data is also available from the National Data Buoy Center as Partner Platform 32ST0.

Stratus imet fig 1 NTAS  imet fig 2
Plot 1 Plot 2

Waves

The Stratus buoy is equipped with an NDBC WAMDAS Wave package; it is NDBC Wave Station 32012.
wave plot
See also: full time series plot.

Last updated: October 10, 2012.