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Station 46042 (LLNR 297) - MONTEREY - 27NM WNW of Monterey, CA
Owned and maintained by National Data Buoy Center
3-meter foam buoy w/ seal cage
SCOOP payload
36.785 N 122.396 W (36°47'5" N 122°23'46" W)
Site elevation: sea level
Air temp height: 3.7 m above site elevation
Anemometer height: 4.1 m above site elevation
Barometer elevation: 2.7 m above mean sea level
Sea temp depth: 1.5 m below water line
Water depth: 1693 m
Watch circle radius: 1793 yards
Stations with recent data
Stations with no data in last 8 hours(24 hours for tsunami stations)
No Recent Reports
Links which are specific to this station are listed below:
Data for last 24 hours: No data available.
Data for last 5 days: No data available.
Data for last 45 days: No data available.
- Historical data (data descriptions)
- Standard meteorological data: 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
- Continuous winds data: 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
- Spectral wave density data: 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2004b 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
- Spectral wave (alpha1) direction data: 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2004b 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
- Spectral wave (alpha2) direction data: 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2004b 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
- Spectral wave (r1) direction data: 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2004b 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
- Spectral wave (r2) direction data: 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2004b 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
- Solar radiation data: 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
- Supplemental measurements data: 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
- Search historical meteorological data for observations that meet your threshold conditions
- Climatic summary table (TXT) and plots of (description of tables and plots)
Some data files have been compressed with the GNU gzip program.
The weekly status report and the weekly maintenance report also provide valuable station information.
Note that the payload types and the station locations occasionally change.
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