L01 Aanderaa - Historic Surface Currents

Ocean observation data from the Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal & Ocean Observing Systems (NERACOOS). The NERACOOS region includes the northeast United States and Canadian Maritime provinces, as part of the United States Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS). These data are served by Unidata's Thematic Realtime Environmental Distributed Data Services (THREDDS) Data Server (TDS) in a variety of interoperable data services and output formats.

Data and Resources

Metadata Date

2026-05-05

Metadata Tags

GCMD Keywords

CF Standard Names

Online Access

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Distribution Formats
  • OPeNDAP (Version: DAP/2.0 )
Distributor Univ. of Maine
Point of Contact Neal Pettigrew
Univ. of Maine
nealp@maine.edu,ljm@umeoce.maine.edu,jevans@umeoce.maine.edu
Background Information (Background information from the source)
Originator Neal Pettigrew
Univ. of Maine
nealp@maine.edu,ljm@umeoce.maine.edu,jevans@umeoce.maine.edu
Background Information (Background information from the source)
Dataset Point of Contact Ru Morrison
NERACOOS
603-319-1785
info@neracoos.org
General Documentation
Associated Documentation NERACOOS
Date(s) creation: 2026-05-05
creation: 2026-05-05
creation: 2026-05-05
creation: 2026-05-05
Use Limitations The data may be used and redistributed for free but is not intended for legal use, since it may contain inaccuracies. Neither the data Contributor, ERD, NOAA, nor the United States Government, nor any of their employees or contractors, makes any warranty, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness, of this information.
Time Period 2002-01-06T01:00:00Z to 2008-11-16T18:00:00Z
Spatial Bounding Box Coordinates N: 43.6248° S: 43.6248° E: -66.55311° W: -66.55311°
Theme keywords Uncategorized
  • aanderaa
  • b01
  • buoy
  • chemistry
  • chlorophyll
  • circulation
  • component
  • conductivity
  • current
  • currents
  • data
  • density
  • department
  • direction
  • east
  • eastward
  • level
  • maine
  • marine
  • name
  • neracoos
  • north
  • northward
  • o2
  • ocean
  • oceanography
  • oceans
  • optics
  • oxygen
  • period
  • physical
  • pressure
  • quality
  • salinity
  • school
  • sciences
  • sea
  • seawater
  • sensor
  • significant
  • speed
  • station
  • surface
  • temperature
  • turbidity
  • university
  • velocity
  • water
  • wave
  • waves
  • winds

GCMD Science Keywords
  • Earth Science > Oceans > Salinity/Density > Salinity
  • Earth Science > Oceans > Salinity/Density > Density
  • Earth Science > Oceans > Salinity/Density > Conductivity
  • Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Winds > Surface Winds
  • Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Waves > Wave Period
  • Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Waves > Significant Wave Height
  • Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Water Temperature
  • Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Pressure > Sea Level Pressure
  • Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Optics > Turbidity
  • Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Circulation > Ocean Currents
  • Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Chemistry > Oxygen
  • Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Chemistry > Chlorophyll

CF-1.6
  • time
  • sea_water_velocity
  • current_speed data_quality
  • direction_of_sea_water_velocity
  • current_direction data_quality
  • sea_water_temperature
  • temperature data_quality
  • longitude
  • latitude
  • depth
Project keywords Uncategorized
  • NERACOOS
Use Constraints The data may be used and redistributed for free but is not intended for legal use, since it may contain inaccuracies. Neither the data Contributor, ERD, NOAA, nor the United States Government, nor any of their employees or contractors, makes any warranty, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness, of this information.
Lineage Statement Tue Jan 27 14:53:14 2009: /usr/local/bin/ncrcat L01.aanderaa.historical.nc L0114.aanderaa.realtime.nc L01.aanderaa.historical.nc.new Fri Feb 15 21:50:36 2008: ncrcat -d time,50000.00,54364.46875 L01.aanderaa.historical.nc new.nc Mon Feb 4 03:35:52 2008: /usr/local/bin/ncrcat L01.aanderaa.historical.nc L0113.aanderaa.realtime.nc L01.aanderaa.historical.nc.new Fri Sep 21 15:17:59 2007: ncrcat -d time,51000.00,54364.4 L01.aanderaa.historical.nc new.nc Fri Sep 21 15:16:59 2007: ncrcat -d time,51000.00,54364.4 L01.aanderaa.historical.nc new.nc Wed May 23 13:30:12 2007: /usr/local/bin/ncrcat L01.aanderaa.historical.nc L0111.aanderaa.realtime.nc L01.aanderaa.historical.nc.new Wed Apr 11 16:43:37 2007: /usr/local/bin/ncrcat -d time,0 /data/gomoos/buoy/archive/L01/L01.aanderaa.historical.nc /data/gomoos/buoy/archive/L01/L01.aanderaa.historical.nc.save000 Wed Apr 11 16:29:50 2007: /usr/local/bin/ncrcat -d time,0 /data/gomoos/buoy/archive/L01/L01.aanderaa.historical.nc /data/gomoos/buoy/archive/L01/L01.aanderaa.historical.nc.save000 Wed Apr 11 15:03:14 2007: /usr/local/bin/ncrcat -d time,0 /data/gomoos/buoy/archive/L01/L01.aanderaa.historical.nc /data/gomoos/buoy/archive/L01/L01.aanderaa.historical.nc.save000 Sun Sep 17 13:03:23 2006: /usr/local/bin/ncrcat L01.aanderaa.historical.nc L0110.aanderaa.realtime.nc L01.aanderaa.historical.nc.new Wed Jul 19 15:52:11 2006: /usr/local/nco/bin/ncrcat L01.aanderaa.historical.nc L0109.aanderaa.realtime.nc L01.aanderaa.historical.nc.new Sun Oct 2 04:19:00 2005: /usr/local/nco/bin/ncrcat L01.aanderaa.historical.nc L0108.aanderaa.realtime.nc L01.aanderaa.historical.nc.new 03-Mar-2005 16:41:33: Added L0107 data from AANCM post-recovery Thu Mar 3 16:40:02 2005: ncrcat new.nc ../L0107/post-recovery/L0107.aanderaa.post-recovery.nc new1.nc Thu Mar 3 16:39:36 2005: ncrcat -d time,2410000.00,2453328.833 L01.aanderaa.historical.nc new.nc Wed Feb 9 04:40:58 2005: /usr/local/nco/bin/ncrcat L01.aanderaa.historical.nc L0107.aanderaa.realtime.nc L01.aanderaa.historical.nc.new Thu Nov 18 20:58:09 2004: /usr/local/nco/bin/ncrcat L01.aanderaa.historical.nc L0106.aanderaa.realtime.nc L01.aanderaa.historical.nc.new Tue Oct 12 14:12:43 2004: /usr/local/nco/bin/ncrcat L01.aanderaa.historical.nc L0105.aanderaa.realtime.nc L01.aanderaa.historical.nc.new Tue Oct 12 13:51:19 2004: ncrcat -d time,2415295.0,2453281.5833333 L01.aanderaa.historical.nc L01.aanderaa.historical.nc.new Mon Oct 4 20:10:22 2004: /usr/local/nco/bin/ncrcat L01.aanderaa.historical.nc L0106.aanderaa.realtime.nc L01.aanderaa.historical.nc.new Tue Jun 8 13:48:25 2004: /usr/local/nco/bin/ncrcat L01.aanderaa.historical.nc L0104.aanderaa.realtime.nc L01.aanderaa.historical.nc.new 09-Oct-2003 12:44:01: Tentatively appended L0103 realtime data starting at julian date 2452789.31527778. Thu Oct 9 12:38:48 2003: ncrcat /data/gomoos/buoy/archive/L01/L01.aanderaa.historical.nc /data/gomoos/buoy/archive/L0103/realtime/L0103.aanderaa.realtime.nc L01.aanderaa.historical.nc 27-Jun-2003 13:01:31: Added ancillary_variables, intent attributes for CF compliance. 07-Apr-2003 15:47:54: Moved temperature back to celsius. Moved current_u, current_v, current_speed back to cm/s. 07-Apr-2003 15:24:43: Added flag_values/flag_meaning attribute pairs. Now discriminating sensor death from out_of_range. Created from L0102.aanderaa.post-recovery.nc
Platforms
Ingestion Attributes
Instrument Attributes
Attribution Information
publisher_phone (603) 319 1785
infoUrl http://www.neracoos.org/
CF related
standard_name_vocabulary CF-1.6