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R interface to many NOAA data APIs
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NDBC GOM data #387

Closed kjschaudt closed 3 years ago

kjschaudt commented 3 years ago

Any one know what is going on? (1) . According to www.ndbc.noaa.gov, the NDBC primary processing servers were shut off due to a facilities issue which has shut down the feed to the station data. (2) Further it appears that data from the Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas platforms will be transferred from NDBC to GCOOS. https://data.gcoos.org website, by the end of the month. Data formats and archiving will differ. Hard to evaluate impact since the NDBC data feed is down and the GCOOS site is spinning up.

Will Rnoaa be able to handle the new data formats and sources?

sckott commented 3 years ago

Thanks for opening the issue @kjschaudt

I do not know - is the answer. Did you notice this due to one or more rnoaa functions failing? If so, which ones?

We'll very likely be able to handle it

ecoflo commented 3 years ago

Hi @sckott - hope you can help with the error I receive from RNOAA package. I am not sure this relates to the changes described above, when using the ghcnd_search function, it returns systematically: "Error: input not of correct format". Even when running the example function such as:

ghcnd_search("AGE00147704", var = "PRCP")

Your advice / help would be greatly appreciated! 👍

kjschaudt commented 3 years ago

Are you sure precipitation is available offshore? The ocean current meters were moved to www.gcoos.org. A station list is at https://ntl.gcoos.org/station_inventory.php. Offshore, I don't recall that there were many (any) rain gauges. At least today, I could not find any stations such as the METARs and coop stations reporting rainfall.

sckott commented 3 years ago

@ecoflo please open a separate issue for that. I can not replicate the problem.

sckott commented 3 years ago

@kjschaudt What rnoaa functions use the data you're talking about above?

kjschaudt commented 3 years ago

I believe it was the buoy function for our application. The NDBC data that were offline included the METAR aviation stations and the ADCP current meters. Don't recall if I managed to get the buoy function fully operational or not. I ended up scraping the website to get the job done. A partial list of the ADCP stations that went offline at NDBC and are now coming up at GCOOS is listed below.
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