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.
Here are some tips for downloading url data programmatically: Download Tips
Real-Time and Historic Data
Buoy data files are updated daily and made available individually via the links 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 these pages:Daily Updated Arctic Data
Daily Updated Antarctic Data
Note that ALL raw buoy data is located here:
Data files are labeled by buoy id, which is typically the IMEI number of the buoy
https://iabp.apl.uw.edu/WebData/
Meta data for these data are available via a series of ascii tables located here:
These are ascii versions of the tables shown on Daily Updated Arctic Data and Daily Updated Antarctic Data.
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
Daily Data Files:
Files containing all raw buoy reports from the previous day are generated daily, and are available here:https://iabp.apl.uw.edu/Data_Products/Daily_Full_Res_Data/Arctic/
3 hourly resolution data is available from 1979 to 2016:
Note that after 2016, data is available only as hourly data.https://iabp.apl.uw.edu/Data_Products/BUOY_DATA/3HOURLY_DATA/
LEVEL 1 Processed Data
The LEVEL 1 data includes additional variables, and has undergone some quality control processing to eliminate reports with erroneous positions. The header for these files is:
BuoyID,Year,Month,Day,Hour,Min,Sec,Lat,Lon,GPSdelay,BPT,BP,Ts,Ta,Th,BattFor more information, and to download data, visit:
where:
- Year, Month, Day, Hour, Min, Sec => Time for the variables BPT,BP,Ts,Ta,Th,Batt
- GPSdelay ==> Difference in minutes between the time of the position measurement and other variables.
- BPT ==> Barometric Pressure Tendency
- BP ==> Barometric Pressure
- Ts ==> Surface Temperature C
- Ta ==> Air Temperature C (typically at 1m)
- Th ==> Hull Temperature C (inside the buoy)
- Batt ==> Battery Voltage
Download LEVEL1 Data
