MARINE OBSERVATION SOURCE · S006
NDBC DART / Tsunameter archive
Discover marine observations available through NDBC DART / Tsunameter archive, including parameters, platforms, spatial and temporal coverage, metadata, and access methods.
- Operator
- NOAA NDBC
- Role
- Specialized observation archive
- Platforms
- DART bottom-pressure recorder + surface buoy
- Observed variables
- Bottom pressure-derived water-column height; event-mode tsunami observations; station metadata
- Spatial coverage
- Tsunami-prone ocean basins
- Period
- 2003-present at NDBC archive
- Depth coverage
- Seafloor/bottom pressure; station water depth
- QC and data mode
- Operational QC / archive handling
- Access method
- Dynamic URL query for station/start/end; historical DART directory
- Indexed download targets
- 1
Canonical parameters
- DART water-column height
dart_water_column_height
Discovery and access
Keep DART separate from normal surface buoy observations because its vertical reference is the seafloor.