MARINE OBSERVATION SOURCE · S007
GTMBA: TAO/TRITON + PIRATA + RAMA
Discover marine observations available through GTMBA: TAO/TRITON + PIRATA + RAMA, including parameters, platforms, spatial and temporal coverage, metadata, and access methods.
- Operator
- NOAA PMEL and international partners
- Role
- Tropical moored observation network + ERDDAP archive
- Platforms
- Tropical moored buoys
- Observed variables
- Ocean temperature; salinity; currents; SST; wind; SLP; air T/RH; shortwave/longwave radiation; heat fluxes; derived thermocline metrics
- Spatial coverage
- Tropical Pacific, Atlantic, Indian oceans
- Period
- Combined PMEL archive includes records from late 1970s-present; variable/station dependent
- Depth coverage
- Surface and multiple subsurface sensor depths
- QC and data mode
- PMEL/array QC; ERDDAP exposes quality variables
- Access method
- Use PMEL ERDDAP search/catalog; select dataset then constrain coordinates/time/depth
- Indexed download targets
- 13
Canonical parameters
- Sea-level / barometric pressure
air_pressure_at_sea_level - Air temperature
air_temperature - Eastward ocean current
eastward_sea_water_velocity - Longwave radiation
longwave_radiation - Northward ocean current
northward_sea_water_velocity - Practical salinity
practical_salinity - Relative humidity
relative_humidity - Sea-surface salinity
sea_surface_salinity - Sea-surface temperature
sea_surface_temperature - Sea-water temperature
sea_water_temperature - Shortwave radiation
shortwave_radiation - Wind direction
wind_direction_from - Wind speed
wind_speed
Discovery and access
For the app, index ERDDAP dataset metadata first, then materialize observation-level existence only for the variables users care about.