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[Datastream #KZO-354014]: BURL1 - NOAA buoy near Southwest Pass, La.

Hi Mike, 

A saw no:

"Buoy Home" from:

http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/access/index.html

However, i did find their THREDDS server and did find buoy BURL1 at:

http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/thredds/catalog/ndbc/cmanwx/2011/12/catalog.html?dataset=ndbc/cmanwx/2011/12/NDBC_BURL1_201112_D2_v00.nc


I also see that if you have a WMS client you could point it at that catalog and 
get satisfaction...

OR

if you access the "opendap" link you will see a list of the variables in the 
dataset....


OR

it is available in netCDF, which our visualization clients enjoy natively, as 
does IDL, MATLAB, and many other commercial applications...


OR

You can install the netCDF utility and dump the data out out in CSV blocks, to 
access netcdf please visit:

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/



So the real question is what do you want to do with the data, and what 
client(s) are you hoping to use. NetCDF is a very widely used format and can be 
used in a myriad
of ways by many clients (that is the core strength of that form)


Data looks solid, let us know if we can help further.


> To Unidata support:   "You are here: NODC Home > Access Data > Buoy Home > 
> Region > BURL1,"  this is where I was trying to get data from.  The buoy is 
> BURL1, and the charts at the bottom for 2011 and 2012 data was what I would 
> have liked to access. Thanks, good luck with it.
> 
> Mike Gold
> Consultant
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [Datastream #KZO-354014]: BURL1 - NOAA buoy near Southwest Pass, La.
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> (apologies for the late response)
> 
> Do you have the file, or a URL where it can be found?
> 
> If so, I suspect we can crack it open, or we will at least give it a try :)
> 
> > To Whom it may concern:
> >
> > I may be beyond your help. All I want to do is open the wind data file
> > on the above buoy, in NOAA's database for April -July, 2011-2013.
> > I am not really what you would call computer literate. I can get to
> > the schedule of the buoy's historical data and find the year and month
> > I want, I just can't open any of the data. It appears in NOAA's help
> > that if I was smart enough to understand your software would help me
> > open their data files. Unfortunately, I'm not that smart.
> 
> Don't be so hard on yourself...everything is easy if you know how to do it, 
> hopefully we can guide you.
> 
> 
> >
> > Is there any way you can help me get the data open.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Mike Gold
> > Consultant


Cheers, 

Jeff

Jeff Weber
Unidata User Support
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: KZO-354014
Department: Support Datastream
Priority: Urgent
Status: Open