National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) data, compiled by the Scripps Center for Coastal Studies

Weekly reports of the NDBC DATA PLATFORM STATUS REPORTare complied in the Data Zoo to supplement other data. The National Data Buoy Center mooring data has been put into CSA format (ccs.ucsd.edu/zoo/documentation/format.txt). Downward looking Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP) have been in place on six NDBC buoys.

The Data Zoo The Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, has developed an on-line database of physical oceanographic data organized by experiment, and referred to as the 'Data Zoo.' The animals in this 'zoo' are the individual data sets, one of which is described above. The zoo is funded by the Mineral Management Service, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior.