Data Products
NOTE TO USERS:FTP access on iabp was terminated on Oct. 1, 2018. Data will remain accessible via the url links provided below. If you need solutions for programatically downloading data, don't hesitate contact Wendy Ermold.
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Real-Time and Historic LEVEL 1 Data
Buoy data files are updated daily and made available individually via the link below. Values provided are confined to surface temperature, atmospheric temperature, and barometric pressure when these values are available. All buoy files contain at least a date and position. Buoys that are no longer reporting remain available on this page:Daily Updated LEVEL 1 Arctic Data
Daily Updated LEVEL 1 Antarctic Data
Note that ALL raw buoy data is located here:
https://iabp.apl.uw.edu/WebData/
Meta data for these data are available via a series of ascii tables located here:
https://iabp.apl.uw.edu/TABLES
Tables are divided by year of buoy deployment, and by Arctic vs. Antarctic. Here are the ascii tables for currently updating data:
ArcticTable_Current.txt
AntarcticTable_Current.txt
https://iabp.apl.uw.edu/Data_Products/BUOY_DATA/FULL_RESOLUTION_DATA/
https://iabp.apl.uw.edu/Data_Products/BUOY_DATA/3HOURLY_DATA/
https://iabp.apl.uw.edu/Data_Products/Daily_Full_Res_Data/
LEVEL 2 Data
Once a buoy has stopped reporting for at least six months, light processing is performed on the data. This processing consists primarily of removing data prior to deployment, and eliminating obvious spikes. For some early buoys a correction for temperature "wrap-around" was also necessary. "Wrap-around" is when a buoy's temperature drops below the buoy's lower limit and then "wraps" to its upper limit. For example, say -5C is a buoys lower limit, and 60C is its upper limit. Then a temperature of -6C will be reported as 59C, and a temperature of -7C will report as 58C. The accuracy of the data has not been determined.https://iabp.apl.uw.edu/WebData/LEVEL2/