Ocean Buoys

CeNCOOS Data Portal

View and download real-time buoy data with our map based data portal.

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Insititute (MBARI)

Measuring: most weather and oceanographic variables (except waves)

Moorings Include: CeNCOOS/MBARI M0, MBARI M1, MBARI/NDBC 46044/M2, MBARI Ocean Acidification OA1 and OA2

• Moorings pages (with real-time data and plots)

National Data Buoy Center (NDBC)

Measuring: real-time wave energy and direction, air/ocean temperature and winds

• Crescent City, CA
• Eureka, CA
• Point Arena, CA
• Golden Gate
• Monterey Bay 46042 (1987-present) ; 46044 (2011-present)
• NW of Morro Bay, CA

Coastal Data Information Program (CDIP)

Measuring: real-time wave energy and direction, sea surface temperature

• Humboldt Bay South Spit
  
• Cape Mendocino
  
• Point Reyes
  
• San Francisco Bar
  
• Monterey Bay
  
• Point Sur
  
• Diablo Canyon

Land/Ocean Biogeochemical Observatory in Elkhorn Slough (LOBO)

Measuring: nitrate, oxygen, chlorophyll and salinity within and just outside a slough within Monterey Bay, CA

• L01
• L02
• L03
• L04
• L20 (outside the slough - removed in October 2010)

Bodega Ocean Observing Node (BOON)

• Measuring: temperature, salinity, chlorophyll fluorescence, currents, pH, CO2, dissolved oxygen and turbidity near Bodega Head
  Bodega Offshore Buoy


• Measuring: temperature, salinity, chlorophyll fluorescence and turbidity 20 miles west of Pt Reyes, CA.
  Cordell Bank Buoy (collaboration with Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary)