latitude

A representative latitude value for the specified location.

If the location is a point, latitude is the actual value.

If the location is an area, a central latitude is provided.

For latitude values associated with buoy resources, when accessing a drifting buoy, it’s metadata will contain null latitude values, but each observation will include the latitude value at the time of observation.

Returned Value Units: degrees (decimal)
Resource Family: Astronomical Data, Climatological Data, Forecast, Weather History
API Versions: v1