NOAA Environmental Buoy Data Now on CD-ROM
  
  Over 7.9 gigabytes of wind, wave, and other marine data 
  collected by the NOAA National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) are 
  now available for 
  the first time on CD-ROM. The NOAA Marine Environmental Buoy 
  Database holds data from NDBC moored buoys and from C-MAN 
  (Coastal-Marine Automated Network) stations located on 
  piers, offshore towers, lighthouses, and beaches. Parameters 
  reported by both buoys and C-MAN stations include air 
  temperature and pressure, wind speed and direction, wind 
  gust, and sea surface temperature. The buoys_and a few C-MAN 
  stations located on offshore towers_also report wave data, 
  usually including wave height, wave period, and wave 
  spectra. Since the late 1980s some buoys have reported 
  directional wave spectra. 
  
  This set of 14 CD-ROMs holds all data from the National 
  Oceanographic Data Center archive of NOAA buoy and C-MAN 
  station data though July 1992. The earliest buoy data are 
  from October 1972, and the earliest C-MAN data are from 
  January 1985. The data are in ASCII format, and files for 
  each moored buoy or C-MAN station are arranged in 
  directories by their station identifier. Each file contains 
  one month of data. The data are organized by ocean area as 
  follows:
      - Atlantic Ocean (4 discs)
      - Gulf of Mexico (2 discs)
      - Great Lakes (2 discs)
      - Western and central Pacific Ocean (1 disc)
      - North Pacific Ocean, above 50xN (1 disc)
      - Eastern Pacific Ocean (4 discs)
  
  For information on costs and payment procedures, please 
  contact: National Oceanographic Data Center 
      User Services Branch 
      NOAA/NESDIS E/OC21
      1825 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 
      Washington, DC 20235
      Telephone: 202-606-4549   
      Fax: 202-606-4586
      Omnet: NODC.WDCA
      Internet: services@nodc.noaa.gov