The goal of buoydata is to easily download and process buoy data hosted by National Data Buoy Center.
Note: the rnoaa package also has functions to get buoy data. The difference is that (in rnoaa) only one years worth of data can be downloaded at any time from a single buoy. As of 2023 rnoaa is no longer officially supported
buoydata downloads all of the buoys data from ERDDAP. In addition the lazily loaded station description data provided with the package combines many more attributes (than rnoaa) by which to filter.
Date of most recent data pull: 2025-11-21
Installation
pak::pak("NOAA-EDAB/buoydata")Data
All of the buoy data is pulled from the coastwatch ERDDAP server. The data set ID is = cwwcNDBCMet. The metadata for this data set can be found at https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/tabledap/cwwcNDBCMet.html.
The ERDDAP server retrieves and combines historic data and real-time data from the NDBC site. The data you retrieve using this package will be ALL data from a particular buoy up to the most recent measurement available.
To view the time series length available for all station visually (on an interactive world map) see the vignette("buoymap")
If you observer a discrepancy between the data on the NDBC website and what is available in this package, first check to see if it is available on ERDDAP or use get_buoy_data() from this package. If it is not please contact erd.data at noaa.gov otherwise create a data issue
Reference
Documentation of the meteorological data can be found on the National Data Buoy Center website
Contact
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