NOAA Water Levels for Coastal, Estuaries and Great Lakes regions

Description

For over 200 years, NOAA's Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) and its predecessors have been managing a comprehensive system for observing, communicating, and assessing water levels nationwide, including on the Great Lakes, and in certain U.S. territories. The standard data collected from our water level stations are reported in 6-minute intervals, and support the National Water Level Observation Network (NWLON), short-term Vertical Datum (VDatum) Projects, the National Tsunami Warning System, the Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System, or PORTS Program, and other partnerships. These data are quality controlled and used to support safe and efficient maritime commerce, sound coastal management, recreation, and studies in sea level and climate changes. The secondary datasets derived from these observations are highs and lows (except for Great Lakes), hourly heights, daily means (Great Lakes only), and monthly means, from which all other CO-OPS datasets are derived for datums, tidal predictions, and sea level applications. Hourly heights in particular are utilized to calculate historic high tide flooding statistics, and to compute monthly mean sea level values, which are incorporated into tidal datums for nautical charting and harmonic constituents for generating tidal predictions. Note: both products of high tide flooding statistics and tidal predictions are calculated on the fly and are not stored, nor considered as data.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 This is the CO-OPS Derived Product API, used for single water level station retrieval of Top-10 Water Levels, Extreme Water Levels, Sea Level Trends, and High Tide Flooding statistics. High Tide Flooding returns daily, monthly, seasonal or annual flood counts. High tide thresholds are based on methodology algorithms, and are updated annually; users should check periodically that they have the most recent values. Sample requests for all products on the Derived Product API are included on the page. https://api.tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/dpapi/prod/
21 This is CO-OPS’ Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System, or PORTS © Program https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/ports_info.html
21 Landing page for water level observations and products. Downloadable data, tide predictions (for non-Great Lakes stations), Datums, various reports https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/water_level_info.html
21 Landing page for CO-OPS’ web services (which is separate from the web site). Services include APIs, GIS Data Portal (MapServices and FeatureServices), THREDDS Server, AWS, ERDDAP, SOAP Web Services, SOS, NowCOAST and a Stations Listing. All of these provide viewable and downloadable data or various reports. Outputs can be text, CSV, JSON, XML, depending on which web service is used. https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/web_services_info.html
21 Landing page for Sea Level and Coastal Flooding Information. https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sea_level_info.html
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/64567
0 CO-OPS Main page https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/find-data/idn/gcmd-keywords
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/co-ops/dmp/pdf/64567.pdf
0 CO-OPS Main page https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov
21 This is CO-OPS’ Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System, or PORTS © Program https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/ports_info.html
21 Landing page for water level observations and products. Downloadable data, tide predictions (for non-Great Lakes stations), Datums, various reports https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/water_level_info.html
21 Landing page for Sea Level and Coastal Flooding Information. https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sea_level_info.html
0 This is the CO-OPS Derived Product API, used for single water level station retrieval of Top-10 Water Levels, Extreme Water Levels, Sea Level Trends, and High Tide Flooding statistics. High Tide Flooding returns daily, monthly, seasonal or annual flood counts. High tide thresholds are based on methodology algorithms, and are updated annually; users should check periodically that they have the most recent values. Sample requests for all products on the Derived Product API are included on the page. https://api.tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/dpapi/prod/
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/64567
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2024. GCMD Keywords, Version 19. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/co-ops/dmp/pdf/64567.pdf
21 Landing page for CO-OPS’ web services (which is separate from the web site). Services include APIs, GIS Data Portal (MapServices and FeatureServices), THREDDS Server, AWS, ERDDAP, SOAP Web Services, SOS, NowCOAST and a Stations Listing. All of these provide viewable and downloadable data or various reports. Outputs can be text, CSV, JSON, XML, depending on which web service is used. https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/web_services_info.html

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