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Irish Weather Buoy Network
The Irish Marine Data Buoy Observation Network (Weather Buoy Network) is managed by the Marine Institute in collaboration with Met Éireann and the UK Met Office. The Irish Weather Buoy Network is designed to improve weather forecasts and safety at sea around Ireland. The buoy network provides vital data for weather forecasts, shipping bulletins, gale and swell warnings as well as data for general public information and research.
Buoy data is also helpful for validating our operational models. Note: The buoy previously stationed at M1 was relocated to M6 at the request of the Met Services. At the M1 station data collection was discontinued in 2007. Please note the weather buoys maybe intermittently inoperative during periods of servicing, or due to severe weather damage, vessel strikes or component failure. Any periods of in operation may result in gaps in the data record depending on the nature of the failure.
Real time meteorological and oceanographic data collected from the Irish moored Weather Buoy network of stations. Parameters collected include: DateTime (yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss.sss), Atmospheric Pressure (mbar), Air Temperature (degreeCelsius), DewPoint Temperature (degreeCelsius), Wind Speed (knots), Max Gust Wind Speed (knots), Wind Direction (degreeTrue), Sea Surface Temperature (degreeCelsius), Wave Period (seconds), Wave Height (metres) and Relative Humidity (%). Real time data available for M2, M3, M4, M5 and M6. Historical data available for M1, FS1 and original M4 spatial location. Users of the download service can choose a station, time period, parameter(s) and output file type. Advanced download allows a user define a bounding box area of interest selecting one or more buoys from the network. 'NaN' or '-999' describes missing or unavailable data.
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Irish Marine Data Buoy Observation Network Real Time Data 2002 - Present
- Date (Creation)
- 2002-02-06
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-07-06
- Date (Publication)
- 2018-09-05
- Citation identifier
- MI / OF.IE.MI.IrishWeatherBuoyNetwork
- Citation identifier
- MI / ie.marine.data:dataset.2783
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Marine Institute
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- As needed
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- Pressure (measured variable) exerted by the atmosphere
- Temperature of the atmosphere
- Speed of wind (gust) {wind speed} in the atmosphere
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- Wave height mean of waves (highest one third) on the water body
- Period of waves (swell) on the water body
- Significant wave height of waves {Hs} on the water body
- Temperature of the water body
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Marine Institute
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- no limitations to public access
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- CC BY 4.0
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This layer is published under the terms of the license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). [ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ]
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- Grid
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- English
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- UTF8
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Oceans
- Begin date
- 2002-02-06T00:00:00
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- 9999-12-31T23:59:59
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- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG: 3857 (WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator)
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Name Version csvm+json ISO 19156:2011 Observations and Measurements XML NetCDF
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Marine Institute
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Protocol Linkage Name OGC Catalogue Service for the Web https://inspire.geohive.ie/geoportal/csw?SERVICE=CSW&VERSION=2.0.2&REQUEST=GetCapabilities Discovery service CSW for the INSPIRE Irish geoportal
OGC Web Feature Service https://iemarinedata.blob.core.windows.net/observations-and-measurements/ie_marine_data__dataset_2783.xml ISO 19156:2011 Observations and Measurements XML
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- 2014-12-31
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Data supplied by Marine Institute.
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This dataset is a parent of IMDBON Weather Buoy at M6 (Deep Atlantic) 2006- Present
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This dataset is a parent of IMDBON Weather Buoy at M5 (Celtic Sea) 2004 - Present
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This dataset is a parent of IMDBON Weather Buoy at M4 (North East Atlantic) 2003- Present
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This dataset is a parent of IMDBON Weather Buoy at M3 (North East Atlantic) 2002- Present
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This dataset is a parent of IMDBON Weather Buoy at M2 (Irish Sea) 2001- Present
Metadata
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- ie.marine.data:dataset.2783 XML
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- English
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- Dataset
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- 2021-11-29T00:00:00
- Metadata standard name
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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) Nº 1205/2008 of INSPIRE Directive
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TG 2.0
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Marine Institute
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