Oswego
Nearshore buoy deployed from May through October, as well as over winter along the southern shore of Lake Ontario. The buoy consists of a yellow six foot diameter, dense foam float with a mast that extends approximately nine feet (~3 m) above the water surface. Temperature chains hang from the buoy extending from the surface to the lake bottom with temperature probes spaced at one meter (~3 ft) intervals. The buoy includes meteorological instruments to measure air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, barometric pressure, and solar radiation. A water quality datasonde is deployed near the surface from the Oswego buoy. The data sonde measures water temperature, specific conductivity, turbidity and chlorophyll-a. The overwinter monitoring system consists of instrumentation (T-String, wave and water current meter) and data logger deployed on the bottom of Lake Ontario, approximately 1.75 miles off the shore of Oswego, NY in 22 m of water. At the lake's surface, a cellular modem antenna is installed on a modified winter buoy (winter stick) to provide telemetry to shore. The buoy is owned by the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry(SUNY ESF) and operated under the Great Lakes Research Consortium (GLRC) by the Upstate Freshwater Institute (UFI).
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 | 2026-10-29 – 2026-10-29 |
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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 |