Atwater 20-meter buoy (ATW20) : meteorological and water quality data
OxygenInorganic CarbonParticulate matterDissolved Organic CarbonSea StateSea Surface SalinitySea Surface TemperatureSurface CurrentsOcean surface stressOcean surface heat fluxPhytoplankton biomass and diversity
The Atwater 20-meter buoy (ATW20) is located approximately 2 km offshore of Milwaukee’s Atwater Beach in Lake Michigan. A two-point mooring system secures the buoy over sand and rock substrate in 20 m of water. The buoy is equipped with a solar-powered weather station and water quality sensors that collect data every 30 min, as well as a vertical string of temperature sensors, a downward-looking current profiler, and a cellular modem for real-time data communication.
Data and resources
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ERDDAP's version of the OPeNDAP .html web page for this dataset. Specify a subset of the dataset and download the data via OPeNDAP or in many different file…ERDDAP Open
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ERDDAP's Make-A-Graph .html web page for this dataset. Create an image with a map or graph of a subset of the data.ERDDAP Open
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Background information from the sourceHTML Open
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Background information from the sourceHTML Open
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Background information from the sourceHTML Open
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ERDDAP's tabledap service (a flavor of OPeNDAP) for tabular (sequence) data. Add different extensions (e.g., .html, .graph, .das, .dds) to the base URL for…ERDDAP Open
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Background information from the sourceHTML Open
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An OPeNDAP service for tabular (sequence) data. Add different extensions (e.g., .html, .das, .dds) to the base URL for different purposes.ERDDAP Open
Additional information
| Temporal extent | 2012-07-26 – 2026-11-03 |
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| Date (creation) | 2026-11-04 |
| Status | onGoing |
| Update frequency | asNeeded |
| Metadata language | en |
| License | The data may be used and redistributed for free but is not intended for legal use, since it may contain inaccuracies. Neither the data Contributor, GLOS, NOAA, nor the United States Government, nor any of their employees or contractors, makes any warranty, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness, of this information. |
| Source metadata | ISO 19115 XML |
| Last updated | 2026-11-04 |
| Created | 2026-11-04 |
| API | package_show |