NDBC — National Data Buoy Center

NDBC Historical Archive Service

Provides quality-controlled historical observations from NDBC stations organized as annual files (prior years) and monthly files (current year) accessible at https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/data/historical/. Measurement categories mirror the real-time service: standard meteorology, continuous winds, spectral wave data, ADCP currents, and oceanographic parameters. Data formats and column definitions are identical to the real-time files except that missing values use variable counts of nines (999, 9999, 99.0) rather than MM. A web-based historical observation search is available at histsearch.php and climatic summaries at climate.php.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/faq/archive.shtml
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Documentation
https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/faq/measdes.shtml
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Documentation
https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/histsearch.php
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Documentation
https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/climate.php

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BaseURL
https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/data/historical/

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: ndbc:historical-archive-service
name: NDBC Historical Archive Service
description: 'Provides quality-controlled historical observations from NDBC stations organized as annual
  files (prior years) and monthly files (current year) accessible at https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/data/historical/.
  Measurement categories mirror the real-time service: standard meteorology, continuous winds, spectral
  wave data, ADCP currents, and oceanographic parameters. Data formats and column definitions are identical
  to the real-time files except that missing values use variable counts of nines (999, 9999, 99.0) rather
  than MM. A web-based historical observation search is available at histsearch.php and climatic summaries
  at climate.php.'
image: https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/images/nws/nws_logo.png
humanURL: https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/faq/archive.shtml
baseURL: https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/data/historical
tags:
- Historical
- Archive
- Climate
- Quality-Controlled
- Annual
- Monthly
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/faq/archive.shtml
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/faq/measdes.shtml
- type: BaseURL
  url: https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/data/historical/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/histsearch.php
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/climate.php
contact:
- FN: NDBC Webmaster
  email: webmaster.ndbc@noaa.gov