Sofar Spotter Archive

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Description

This dataset includes archival hourly data from the [Sofar Spotter buoy global network] (https://weather.sofarocean.com/) from 2019 to March 2022.

Update Frequency

As available

License

Sofar Data Access Agreement

Documentation

Spotter Technical Reference Manual

Managed By

See all datasets managed by Sofar Ocean.

Contact

opendata@sofarocean.com

How to Cite

Sofar Spotter Archive was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/sofar-spotter-archive.

Usage Examples

Tutorials

Analyzing Spotter data with CloudDrift by Milan Curcic
Exploring Bulk Variables from the Spotter Archive by Isabel A. Houghton
Exploring Wave Spectra Variables from the Spotter Archive by Isabel A. Houghton

Publications

Performance Characteristics of “Spotter,” a Newly Developed Real-Time Wave Measurement Buoy (2019) by K. Raghukumar, G. Chang, F. Spada, C. Jones, T. Janssen, A. Gans
Performance Statistics of a Real-Time Pacific Ocean Weather Sensor Network (2021) by I. Houghton, P. Smit, D. Clark, C. Dunning, A. Fisher, N. Nidzieko, P. Chamberlain, T. Janssen

Resources on AWS

Description

Hourly position, wave spectra and bulk wave parameters from global free drifting Spotter buoys.

Resource type

S3 Bucket

Amazon Resource Name (ARN)

arn:aws:s3:::sofar-spotter-archive

AWS Region

us-west-2

AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)

aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://sofar-spotter-archive/

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