M01 Optics

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

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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 2001-07-11T22:00:00Z to 2007-05-22T10:00:00Z
Spatial Bounding Box Coordinates N: 43.512° S: 43.4907° E: -67.614° W: -67.8798°
Theme keywords Uncategorized
  • 400-700nm
  • 700nm
  • angle
  • b01
  • buoy
  • chemistry
  • chlorophyll
  • circulation
  • color
  • conductivity
  • currents
  • data
  • density
  • department
  • downwelling
  • irradiance
  • level
  • maine
  • marine
  • name
  • neracoos
  • o2
  • ocean
  • ocean color
  • oceanography
  • oceans
  • optics
  • oxygen
  • par
  • period
  • physical
  • pressure
  • quality
  • salinity
  • school
  • sciences
  • sea
  • seawater
  • sensor
  • significant
  • solar
  • station
  • surface
  • temperature
  • turbidity
  • university
  • water
  • wave
  • waves
  • winds
  • zenith

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
  • station_name
  • time
  • ed_par data_quality
  • chlorophyll_concentration_in_sea_water
  • chlorophyll 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 Mon Nov 13 20:05:48 2006: ncrcat -d time,52791.00,60000.00 M01.optics_s.historical.nc new.nc Tue Jul 18 02:03:09 2006: /usr/local/nco/bin/ncrcat M01.optics_s.std_small.historical.nc M0109.optics_s.std_small.realtime.nc M01.optics_s.std_small.historical.nc.new Thu Feb 23 06:37:45 2006: /usr/local/nco/bin/ncrcat M01.optics_s.std_small.historical.nc M0108.optics_s.std_small.realtime.nc M01.optics_s.std_small.historical.nc.new Tue Oct 4 21:03:59 2005: /usr/local/nco/bin/ncrcat M01.optics_s.std_small.historical.nc M0107.optics_s.std_small.realtime.nc M01.optics_s.std_small.historical.nc.new Tue May 17 23:52:08 2005: /usr/local/nco/bin/ncrcat M01.optics_s.std_small.historical.nc M0106.optics_s.std_small.realtime.nc M01.optics_s.std_small.historical.nc.new Mon Oct 4 14:55:25 2004: /usr/local/nco/bin/ncrcat M01.optics_s.std_small.historical.nc M0105.optics_s.std_small.realtime.nc M01.optics_s.std_small.historical.nc.new Tue Jun 8 13:58:40 2004: /usr/local/nco/bin/ncrcat M01.optics_s.std_small.historical.nc M0104.optics_s.std_small.realtime.nc M01.optics_s.std_small.historical.nc.new 07-Oct-2003 23:58:58: Tentatively added M0103 realtime data starting at 2003-7-9 04:56:00, julian day 2452830.20555556 Tue Oct 7 23:41:50 2003: ncrcat /data/gomoos/buoy/archive/M01/M01.optics_s.std_small.historical.nc /data/gomoos/buoy/archive/M0103/realtime/M0103.optics_s.std_small.realtime.nc M01.optics_s.std_small.historical.nc Thu Jul 31 18:47:09 2003: ncatted -a standard_name,Ed_qc,c,c,Ed data_quality /data/gomoos/buoy/archive/M01/M01.optics_s.std_small.historical.nc Thu Jul 31 18:47:09 2003: ncatted -a intent,Ed_qc,c,c,data_quality /data/gomoos/buoy/archive/M01/M01.optics_s.std_small.historical.nc Thu Jul 31 18:47:09 2003: ncatted -a ancillary_variables,Ed,c,c,Ed_qc /data/gomoos/buoy/archive/M01/M01.optics_s.std_small.historical.nc Thu Jul 31 18:47:09 2003: ncatted -a standard_name,Ed,c,c,downwelling_spectral_irradiance /data/gomoos/buoy/archive/M01/M01.optics_s.std_small.historical.nc Thu Jul 31 18:47:09 2003: ncatted -a units,Ed,o,c,microwatts/cm^2/nanometer /data/gomoos/buoy/archive/M01/M01.optics_s.std_small.historical.nc Thu Jul 31 18:47:09 2003: ncatted -a ancillary_variables,chlorophyll,c,c,chlorophyll_qc /data/gomoos/buoy/archive/M01/M01.optics_s.std_small.historical.nc Thu Jul 31 18:47:09 2003: ncatted -a standard_name,chlorophyll,c,c,chlorophyll_concentration_in_sea_water /data/gomoos/buoy/archive/M01/M01.optics_s.std_small.historical.nc Thu Jul 31 18:47:09 2003: ncatted -a standard_name,OCR504_wavelength,c,c,electromagnetic_wavelength /data/gomoos/buoy/archive/M01/M01.optics_s.std_small.historical.nc Wed Jul 30 21:53:56 2003: ncatted -a units,chlorophyll,o,c,micrograms/liter /data/gomoos/buoy/archive/M01/M01.optics_s.std_small.historical.nc Tue Jul 29 17:25:31 2003: ncatted -a flag_meanings,chlorophyll_qc,o,c,quality_good out_of_range insufficient_DFLS_counts invalid_temperature_input /data/gomoos/buoy/archive/M01/M01.optics_s.std_small.historical.nc Tue Jul 29 17:25:31 2003: ncatted -a flag_values,chlorophyll_qc,o,b,0,1,19,25 /data/gomoos/buoy/archive/M01/M01.optics_s.std_small.historical.nc 28-Jul-2003 18:02:21: Ed_PAR appeared to be wildly scaled, by a factor of around 6.02e13. I recomputed it and got reasonable values. jge 27-Jul-2003 13:15:31: DH4 firmware problem of OCR rollover on averaging, realtime observations incorrect - AHB 27-Jul-2003 13:14:20: Provisionally created from M0101.optics_s.raw.nc.
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Instrument Attributes
Attribution Information
publisher_phone (603) 319 1785
infoUrl http://www.neracoos.org
CF related
standard_name_vocabulary CF-1.6