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Station 46063 (LLNR 236) - Pt.Conception, CA - 50NM West of Santa Barbara, CA
Owned and maintained by National Data Buoy Center
3-meter discus buoy
ARES 4.4 payload
34.273 N 120.699 W (34°16'21" N 120°41'55" W)
Site elevation: sea level
Air temp height: 4 m above site elevation
Anemometer height: 5 m above site elevation
Barometer elevation: sea level
Sea temp depth: 0.6 m below water line
Water depth: 632 m
Watch circle radius: 980 yards
The station is a non-NWS funded station for which the operating agreement between the NWS and the Program Sponsor has expired and will not be renewed. In the absence of the station, the NOAA-NDBC directs the user to station 46054 (Santa Barbara, CA) which is currently located eleven (11) nautical miles from the disestablished station.
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: 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
- Continuous winds data: 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
- Spectral wave density data: 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
- Spectral wave (alpha1) direction data: 2006 2007 2008 2009
- Spectral wave (alpha2) direction data: 2006 2007 2008 2009
- Spectral wave (r1) direction data: 2006 2007 2008 2009
- Spectral wave (r2) direction data: 2006 2007 2008 2009
- Ocean current data: 2006 2007 2008 2009
- Ocean data: 2007 2008 2009
- 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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