Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Office of Coast Survey (OCS), Coast Survey Development Laboratory (CSDL), Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (MMAP) (comp.) 20020510 vector digital data, map Silver Spring, MD NOAA's Ocean Service, Office of Coast Survey (OCS) http://nowcoast.noaa.gov An estuary, as well as the people who live within its boundaries, is affected daily by changes in weather, oceanographic, and river conditions. The physical changes within many estuaries are monitored in real-time by NOAA and other federal, state, and educational observing networks. Future short-term changes in weather and river conditions are forecasted by NOAA numerical prediction models. In addition, NOAA is developing the capability to forecast oceanographic conditions in estuaries and the coastal ocean. To provide forecast model developers and the coastal community easy and centralized access to online, real-time physical meteorological, oceanographic, river, and air/water quality information, the Coast Survey Development Laboratory (CSDL) has developed a spatially-referenced Web portal. In addition to providing observation data, the Web portal also provides NOAA forecasts for major estuaries, seaports, and adjacent coastal regions as well as the Great Lakes. The portal, nowCOAST, was constructed using ESRI's off-the-shelf GIS software, ArcIMS. NowCoast contains links to a variety of outside sources. The ownership of the web sites to which the portal is linked will be clearly visible and retained by them, while the integrity of the nowCoast Web portal connection will be maintained by CSDL. Presently, the portal provides links to oceanographic and/or weather observations: NOS Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System (PORTS) and National Water Level Observation Network stations, National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) fixed buoys and C-MAN stations, National Weather Service's Interactive Weather Information Network, the Federal Aviation Administration's Automated Surface Observing System sites, the Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Monitoring for Public Access Community Tracking (EMPACT) stations, as well as non-federal government run stations, NWS NEXRAD reflectivities; river observations: United States Geological Survey (USGS) river gages, INFLOWS stations; river forecast guidance: National Weather Service (NWS) River Forecast Centers (RFC); and weather and oceanographic forecasts: individual products of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Marine Prediction Center, National Weather Service (NWS) coastal Weather Forecast Offices, National Ocean Service (NOS) estuarine forecast models, and National Weather Service (NWS) Extra-Tropical Storm-Surge Model. The Office of Coast Survey's nowCoast Web Portal is designed to allow rapid spatial location of real-time weather, ocean, and river information for coastal areas, while allowing a robust set of tools for those desiring additional functionality. 1. About nowCOAST A link to information about nowCOAST is available at the upper right corner of the Web Portal. The page contains general information about nowCOAST, as well as a description of nowCOAST's links, a glossary of terms, and a list of nowCOAST partners. 2. Help file A help file is available in the upper right corner of the Web Portal. The file describes in-detail how to navigate through the nowCoast ArcIMS interface. The file is outlined as follows: (1) Disclaimers (2) Purpose (3) Usage (4) Tool Descriptions (5) Metadata (6) Contact Information 3. News A link to nowCOAST news is available at the upper right corner of the Web Portal. The news includes information about version releases, data layer modifications, and demonstrations and conferences (past/future). 20020510 unknown publication date In work As needed -180 -65 80 0 None hydrologic information meteorologic information estuarine oceanic information coast weather stations weather radar data streamflow atmospheric profile data observations forecasts model output Internet Web Portal URL real-time Coastal Monitoring oceans None U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone Coastal United States None real-time None Overall NOS' Coast Survey Development Laboratory is not an operational data facility. No warranties are expressed or implied regarding the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of the information provided or linked to in the nowCOAST web portal. Users are cautioned to consider the provisional nature of the observations before using it for decision making. The user assumes the entire risk related to use of the data or any information. NOS disclaim liability of any kind whatsoever, including, without limitation, liability for quality, performance, merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In no event will NOS be liable to you or to any third party for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special exemplary damages or lost profit resulting from any use or misuse of the data or any information presented or linked to in the web portal. NOS reserves the right to suspend or discontinue this web portal, or portions thereof, at any time. Observations/Data Observations from mesonets should be considered experimental and not always reliable or accurate. NOAA does not own or operate any of the mesonet sites linked to on this web portal and is not responsible for site maintenance or data accuracy. The links to these mesonets on this web portal are provided as a convenience to the user and does not represent an endorsement of the station and/or mesonet or the observations. There are differences among and sometimes within mesonets in terms of sampling frequency, height of sensors, exposure, observing equipment, etc... This may account for some of the differences in observations when comparing data from nearby stations. If you have questions regarding a particular station or mesonet, please contact the organization responsible for that station or mesonet. Forecast Guidance NWS and NOS forecast guidance is computer model generated predictions from numerical- and/or statistical-based weather, oceanographic, or river models. Model forecast guidance is used for input into other numerical forecasts models and also by NOAA and private sector meteorologists, hydrologists, and oceanographers in generation of worded or gridded weather, river, and/or marine forecasts. Users should always consult final worded or gridded marine, weather, and/or river forecasts, warnings or advisories from local NWS Weather Forecast Offices for their particular activity or application. Disclaimer for 'Weather/Ocean Obs' Selection Observations from non-NOAA, Department of Defense (DOD), or Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) stations should be considered experimental and not always reliable or accurate. The links to the other stations are provided as a convenience to the user and does not represent an endorsement by NOS of the station or its observations. The user assumes the entire risk related to use or misuse of the data. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Office of Coast Survey (OCS), Coast Survey Development Laboratory (CSDL) Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs mailing and physical address

1315 East West Highway, Station 7823

Silver Spring MD 20910 301-713-2809 x107 John.Kelley@noaa.gov Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm This web portal relies on links to web sites operated by various federal government agencies and universities. We wish to acknowledge the following organizations: National Weather Service (NWS) Meteorological Development Laboratory, NWS' Model Output Statistics Group, NWS' National Digital Forecast Database Group, NWS' Marine and Coastal Services Branch, NWS' Baltimore-Washington Weather Forecast Office, National Ocean Service (NOS) Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services, NOS' Management and Budget Office: Special Projects Office, NOS' HAZMAT Group, Univ. of Maryland's Chesapeake Bay Observing System, Maryland's Dept. of Natural Resources, Rutgers University LEO, University of New Hampshire's Dept. of Geography, EPA/Univ. of Connecticut's mySound EMPACT Network, United States Geological Survey's NWIS, United States Coast Guard, Dept. of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island Shore Observing Network, Prince William Sound Oil Spill Recovery Network Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcIMS 4.01 The information gathered for this portal is only as accurate as their online sources. The Coast Survey Development Laboratory claims no degree of accuracy. The URLs for each online source are tested using a Perl script developed by the Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs to ensure that the URLs are still correct and active. No maintenance script frequency schedule has been determined at this time. Information was gathered on the basis of its online availability in real-time. No specific test was used. Accuracies are dependant upon the online source. NOAA's National Weather Service, Meteorological Development Laboratory, Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (comp.) Unknown tabular digital data USA NOAA's National Weather Service, Meteorological Development Laboratory MDL's User Manual is available at http://www.nws.noaa.gov/mdl/etsurge/index.htm http://www.nws.noaa.gov/mdl/etsurge/index.htm online unknown present publication date RTINFO Extratropical Water Level Forecasts NOAA's National Ocean Service, Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (comp.) unknown graphic plots, tabular digital data USA NOAA's Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services The Chesapeake Bay Operational Forecast System runs a numerical model four times a day to simulate water levels for the last 24 hours (the nowcast) and produce a forecast of the water levels for the next 24 hours. These figures display the results as a graph of the water level height at water level measurement stations throughout the bay. All the graphics are updated with each new run of the model which occurs daily at 0000, 0600, 1200 and 1800 hours Eastern Time. The Port of New York and New Jersey Operational Forecast System (NYOFS) has been created by NOAA/NOS to provide the maritime community with improved predictions of water level in the New York Harbor. Please be advised that these predictions are based on a hydrodynamic model and, as such, should be considered as computer-generated forecast guidance. Please be advised that these predictions are based on a hydrodynamic model and, as such, should be considered as computer-generated forecast guidance. A detailed analysis of the accuracy of the NYOFS system can be found at http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/NYOFS/ in the NYOFS Skill Assessment 2002 document. CO-OPS Disclaimer: The user assumes the entire risk related to its use of these data. NOS is providing these data "as is," and NOS disclaims any and all warranties, whether express or implied, including (without limitation) any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. In no event will NOS be liable to you or to any third party for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special or exemplary damages or lost profit resulting from any use or misuse of this data. http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/CBOFS/ http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/NYOFS/ http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/ online unknown present publication date RTINFO NWLON and NOS Water Level Stations NOAA's National Ocean Service, Office of Coast Survey, Coast Survey Development Laboratory, Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs Unknown graphic plots, raster digital data Silver Spring, MD NOAA's National Ocean Service, Office of Coast Survey (OCS) http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/csdl/op/gbfore.m.html online unknown present publication date RTINFO NY/NJ and Galveston Bay/Houston Ship Channel experimental nowcast and forecast plots NOAA's National Data Buoy Center, Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (comp.) unknown tabular digital data USA NOAA's National Data Buoy Center http://ndbc.noaa.gov/ online unknown present publication date RTINFO NDBC Stations NOAA's National Weather Service, Forecast Systems Laboratory, Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (comp.) unknown tabular digital data USA NOAA's National Weather Service, Forecast Systems Laboratory http://gpsmet.fsl.noaa.gov/jsp/index.jsp online unknown present publication date RTINFO Ground-Based GPS Meteorology Demonstration Network NOAA's National Weather Service, Forecast Systems Laboratory, Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (comp.) unknown tabular digital data USA NOAA's National Weather Service, Forecast Systems Laboratory http://www.profiler.noaa.gov/jsp/index.jsp online unknown present publication date RTINFO The NOAA Profiler Network (NPN), consisting of 35 unmanned Doppler Radar sites located in 18 central US states and Alaska, provides hourly vertical wind profile data. The Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University, Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (comp.) unknown tabular digital data New Jersey The Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University http://marine.rutgers.edu/ online unknown present publication date RTINFO The Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences' Fieldstations National Weather Service, Marine and Coastal Weather Services, Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (comp.) unknown tabular digital data Silver Spring, MD NOAA's National Weather Service, Marine and Coastal Weather Services http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/forecast.htm online unknown present publication date RTINFO Coast Guard stations from NWS' Marine Text Forecasts and Products Listing Chesapeake Bay Observing System, Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (comp.) unknown tabular digital data USA Chesapeake Bay Observing System http://www.cbos.org/ online unknown present publication date RTINFO Chesapeake Bay Observing System United States Geological Survey, Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (comp.) unknown tabular digital data, map USA United States Geological Survey Real-time data typically are recorded at 15-60 minute intervals, stored onsite, and then transmitted to USGS offices every 4 hours. Recording and transmission times may be more frequent during critical events. Data from real-time sites are relayed to USGS offices via satellite, telephone, and/or radio and are available for viewing within 3 minutes of arrival. http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/rt online unknown present publication date RTINFO USGS' Real-Time River Data for the Nation NOAA's National Weather Service's Automated Flood Warning System (AFWS), Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (comp.) unknown tabular digital data East Coast, USA NOAA's National Weather Service Rainfall amounts are updated every 15 minutes. http://www.afws.net online unknown present publication date RTINFO AFWS' Integrated Flood Observing and Warning System NOAA's National Weather Service unknown tabular digital data USA NOAA's National Weather Service Information from this site includes Automated Surface Observing Sites (ASOS), Automated Weather Observing Sites (AWOS), NEXRAD doppler radar stations, and WFO Zonal Forecasts. http://weather.noaa.gov http://weather.gov online unknown present publication date RTINFO Weather Forecast Office Zone Forecasts NOAA's National Weather Service unknown tabular digital data USA NOAA's National Weather Service Information from this site includes MOS forecasts. http://www.nws.noaa.gov/mdl/synop/products.shtml online unknown present publication date RTINFO About 14,000 of NWS' current MOS Forecast Products NOAA's National Weather Service, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (comp.) unknown tabular digital data USA NOAA's National Weather Service, National Centers for Environmental Prediction http://www.ncep.noaa.gov/ ftp://polar.wwb.noaa.gov/pub/waves/latest_run/ online unknown present publication date RTINFO NCEP's WNAs LIShore partners, under the direction of the Coastal Inlets Research Program of the US Army Corps of Engineers unknown tabular digital data New York US Army Corps of Engineers Coastal Inlets Research Program, Offshore and Coastal Technologies Inc., and Ocean Instrument Laboratory Marine Sciences - SUNY Real time telemetry is available from instruments installed at Shinnecock Inlet, Coast Guard Group Moriches near Moriches Inlet, Smith Point at the eastern end of Great South Bay, Fire Island Inlet, and Jones Inlet. From the link http://www.lishore.org/about/disclaimer.htm This website maintains a database of meteorological and hydrological data, historical data, images, and written information generated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers or received from other official sources. In addition, this site provides in real time a selection of current weather and oceanic observations for use by the national and international community. http://www.lishore.org online unknown present publication date RTINFO Sea, inlet, and bay conditions for Long Island, New York, USA Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Connecticut and EPA unknown tabular digital data Connecticut Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Connecticut Currently there are eight stations deployed: 1) Hampstead River, 2) Norwalk Harbor, 3) Housatonic River, 4) Thames River, 5) Ledge Light, 6) Western Sound, 7) Central Sound, and 8) Eastern Sound. The data are posted near real-time to this site as provisional data, while longer term and historical data are available as ASCII files via FTP. http://www.mysound.uconn.edu/stationstat.html online unknown present publication date RTINFO A Marine Environmental Monitoring Network for Long Island Sound National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Program unknown tabular digital data Boulder, CO National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Program http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/upper online unknown present publication date RTINFO Upper-Air winds and temperatures from the NCAR-RAP Real-Time Weather Data website Prince William Sound Oil Spill Recovery Institute, Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (comp.) unknown tabular digital data Alaska Prince William Sound Oil Spill Recovery Institute http://www.pws-watershed.org/ online unknown present publication date RTINFO Weather observations network at Prince William Sound, Alaska Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (comp.) unknown tabular digital data Long Island, New York Brookhaven National Laboratory http://wx1.bnl.gov/weather/WxLatest.jsp online unknown present publication date RTINFO Observations at BNL, Smith Point, and Orient Point, New York NOAA's National Climate Data Center, Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (comp.) unknown tabular digital data Asheville, NC NOAA's National Climate Data Center http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/uscrn/index.html online unknown present publication date RTINFO US Climate Reference Network stations Texas A&M, Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (comp.) unknown tabular digital data Texas Texas A&M http://resolute.gerg.tamu.edu/ online unknown present publication date RTINFO Real Time Oceanographic Data Supporting Oil Spill Prevention and Response University of New Hampshire and NOAA's Office of Atmospheric Research, Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (comp.) unknown tabular digital data New Hampshire University of New Hampshire http://airmap.unh.edu/home/index.cfm online unknown present publication date RTINFO Air quality monitoring stations for New England DOD and National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Program, Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (comp.) unknown tabular digital data USA 4 Dimensional Weather Systems and Technology https://www.4dwx.org/index.html online unknown present publication date RTINFO Meteorological stations Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (comp.) unknown tabular digital data Edgartown, MA Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute http://mvcodata.whoi.edu/cgi-bin/mvco/mvco.cgi online unknown present publication date RTINFO Real-time coastal oceanographic and meteorological data for South Beach and 1 mile offshore in the Atlantic Stevens Institute of Technology, Davidson Laboratory, Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (comp.) unknown tabular digital data Hoboken, NJ Davidson Laboratory http://www.dl.stevens-tech.edu/davidson/soon.html online unknown present publication date RTINFO Coastal Monitoring Network NOAA's Office of Atmospheric Research, Coral Health and Monitoring Program, Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (comp.) unknown tabular digital data Miami, FL NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory http://www.coral.noaa.gov/ online unknown present publication date RTINFO The SEAKEYS program provides hourly data from up to seven meteorological and oceanographic monitoring stations situated throughout the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and Florida Bay. The CREWS stations consist of a basic suite of sensors, plus additional ones, depending upon local research the stations hope to support, and upon available funding. The basic suite of meteorological and air-based sensors measure air temperature, wind speed and direction, barometric pressure, photosynthetically available radiation (PAR) and ultraviolet radiation (UVR). The basic suite of oceanographic sensors measure salinity, sea temperature, PAR (at 1m nominal) and UVR (at 1m nominal). In addition to these sensors, a data acquisition system gathers and averages the data, then transmits the hourly averages via a GOES satellite. Texas A&M, Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (comp.) unknown tabular digital data Corpus Christi, TX Texas A&M http://dnr.cbi.tamucc.edu/wiki/TCOON/HomePage online unknown present publication date RTINFO Over 40 stations with real-time water-level and meteorological information LSU's Coastal Studies Institute, Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (comp.) unknown tabular digital data Baton Rouge, LA LSU http://wavcis.csi.lsu.edu/ online unknown present publication date RTINFO Real-time information describing sea state, surface current, and meteorological conditions Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON), Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (comp.) unknown tabular digital data Louisiana LUMCON http://weather.lumcon.edu/ online unknown present publication date RTINFO 5 Environmental Monitoring Stations of LUMCON Marine Center, Terrebonne Bay, Pontchartrain, Tambour Bay, and Mississippi River-Audubon. University of California Marine Council (UCMC), Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (comp.) unknown tabular digital data California University of California Marine Council (UCMC) http://es.ucsc.edu/~neoco/ online unknown present publication date RTINFO Real-time oceanographic and meteorological information Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (comp.) unknown tabular digital data California Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute http://www.oc.nps.navy.mil/~icon/ online unknown present publication date RTINFO Real time HF Radar Maps and Mooring Data Plots Bodega Marine Laboratory, University of California - Davis, Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (comp.) unknown tabular digital data Bodega Bay, CA Bodega Marine Laboratory, University of California - Davis http://www.bml.ucdavis.edu/envdata/ online unknown present publication date RTINFO Real-time Meteorological and Oceanographic Data Oregon Health & Science University, Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (comp.) unknown tabular digital data Oregon Oregon Health & Science University http://www.ccalmr.ogi.edu/CORIE/ online unknown present publication date RTINFO CORIE is a reference Environmental Observation and Forecasting System (EOFS). The CORIE observation network includes an extensive array of stations in the Columbia River estuary, and one station in the nearby coastal ocean. Maryland DOT, Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (comp.) unknown tabular digital data Maryland Maryland DOT http://www.chart.state.md.us/ online unknown present publication date RTINFO Weather information for Maryland Washington DOT, Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (comp.) unknown tabular digital data Washington Washington DOT http://www.atmos.washington.edu/maciver/Ferry/Ferryjs/mainframe1.htm online unknown present publication date RTINFO Ferry weather information Maryland DNR, Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (comp.) unknown tabular digital data Annapolis, MD Maryland DNR http://mddnr.chesapeakebay.net/newmontech/contmon/index.cfm online unknown present publication date RTINFO Water quality information NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (comp.) unknown tabular digital data Ann Arbor, MI NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/ online unknown present publication date RTINFO A network of real-time meteorological stations at exposed coastal sites around southern Lake Michigan: Chicago, Milwaukee, Kenosha, Saugatuck, Michigan City, and central Lake Huron: Alpena. Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) 1999 ArcView 3.x vector digital data Redlands, California Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) CD-ROM 1999 publication date BACKDROP Shoreline of North America, except for the US. Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (ed.) 2001 ArcView 3.x vector digital data Redlands, California Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) CD-ROM 1998 1970 1972 - 1994 publication date BACKDROP National Atlas of the United States Cities: subset of cities with a population over 5,000 Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) 2001 ArcView 3.x vector digital data Redlands, California Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) CD-ROM 1998 publication date BACKDROP Urban Areas of North America Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) 2001 ArcView 3.x vector digital data Redlands, California Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) CD-ROM 1997 1992 - 1996 1978 publication date BACKDROP U.S. National Transportation Atlas Interstate Highways NOAA's National Ocean Service Unknown vector digital data Silver Spring, MD NOAA's National Ocean Service shapefiles unknown publication date BACKDROP Shoreline of the contiguous US (1:80000 nautical charts) and hydrologic features. United States Geological Survey, Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (ed.) 200201 USA United States Geological Survey http://nationalatlas.gov/hucsm.html online 19981001 publication date BACKDROP Used hydrologic unit boundaries shapefile for labels. United States Geological Survey, Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (ed.) 200201 USA United States Geological Survey http://nationalatlas.gov/hydrom.html online 1995 2002 publication date BACKDROP Used water features shapefile for major water feature labels. United States Geological Survey 200201 USA United States Geological Survey http://nationalatlas.gov/roadsm.html online 1972 1999 publication date BACKDROP Added U.S. roads to help users specify an area. Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (MMAP) collected the information based on online availability. The data is openly available to the public and a Perl script was written to retrieve station URLs that utilize the http GET method. The data was qualified based on variables provided by the source. Then the data and URLs were compiled in a Microsoft Access database. The database was converted to a shapefiles to be used with ArcIMS. RTINFO Not complete National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Office of Coast Survey (OCS), Coast Survey Development Laboratory (CSDL) Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs mailing and physical address

1315 East West Highway, Rm 7711

Silver Spring MD 20910 301-713-2809 x120 Micah.Wengren@noaa.gov Monday - Friday, 9am-5pm Additional background shapefiles files were added to the ArcIMS nowCoast Portal for navigational ease and to provide a geographic framework upon which to place the real-time information. BACKDROP 20020510 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Office of Coast Survey (OCS), Coast Survey Development Laboratory (CSDL) Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs mailing and physical address

1315 East West Highway, Rm 7711

Silver Spring MD 20910 301-713-2809 x120 Micah.Wengren@noaa.gov Monday - Friday, 9am-5pm The fields listed below were compiled by the Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs (MMAP) based on the information available at online data sources. Fields such as winds, air temperature, dew point, precipitation, relative humidity, mean sea level pressure, weather, snowfall, cloud cover, visibility, sea surface temp., salinity, water level, currents, waves, sea sub-surface temp., and streamflow are populated with 1's or 0's based on whether this type of information is available at the station or zone. For NEXRAD stations: station ID, name, city, state, latitude, longitude, agency responsible, tower height, elevation, and URL. For WFO Zones: ID, state, WFO, agency responsible, name, availability, latitude, longitude, update frequency, wave height, weather, and URL. For Weather/Ocean Forecast Points: station ID, WMO ID, location, state, agency responsible, model type, update frequency, latitude, longitude, winds, air temperature, dew point, precipitation, relative humidity, mean sea level pressure, weather, snowfall, cloud cover, visibility, sea surface temperature, salinity, water level, currents, waves, sea sub-surface temperature, and URL. For Weather/Ocean Observation Points: internal station ID, NWS ID, CREX ID, WMO ID, agency responsible, type, availability, station name, state, latitude, longitude, elevation, depth, update frequency, anemometer height, winds, air temperature, dew point, precipitation, relative humidity, mean sea level pressure, solar radiation, weather, snowfall, cloud cover, visibility, sea surface temperature, salinity, water level, currents, waves, sea sub-surface temperature, and URL. For River Observations: station ID, USGS ID, agency responsible, location, state, availability, update frequency, elevation, latitude, longitude, gage height, streamflow, site description, and URL. For River Forecasts: internal station ID, NWS ID, USGS ID, agency responsible, river, location, state, update frequency, availability, latitude, longitude, RFC, WFO, forecast, USGS data, streamflow, gage height, and URLs. The following URLs are the generalized paths MMAP used to collect the information used in MMAP's Access database. http://www.nws.noaa.gov/mdl/etsurge/index.htm http://co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/CBOFS/index.shtml http://tidesonline.nos.noaa.gov/ http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/csdl/op/welcome.html http://ndbc.noaa.gov/ http://gpsmet.fsl.noaa.gov/jsp/index.jsp http://gyre.umeoce.maine.edu/ http://marine.rutgers.edu/ http://twister.sbs.ohio-state.edu http://www.cbos.org/ http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/rt http://www.afws.net http://weather.noaa.gov/ http://weather.gov http://www.nws.noaa.gov/mdl/synop/products.shtml http://www.profiler.noaa.gov/jsp/index.jsp http://www.ncep.noaa.gov/ ftp://polar.wwb.noaa.gov/pub/waves/latest_run/ http://www.lishore.org http://www.mysound.uconn.edu/stationstat.html http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/upper/ Background files of roads, hydrologic units, and water bodies were collected from the USGS. http://www.nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp.html National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Office of Coast Survey (OCS), Coast Survey Development Laboratory (CSDL) Marine Modeling and Analysis Programs mailing and physical address

1315 East-West Highway, Rm 7823

Silver Spring MD 20910 301-713-2809 x107 John.Kelley@noaa.gov Monday - Friday, 9am-5pm Live Data and Maps Overall NOS' Coast Survey Development Laboratory is not an operational data facility. No warranties are expressed or implied regarding the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of the information provided or linked to in the nowCOAST web portal. Users are cautioned to consider the provisional nature of the observations before using it for decision making. The user assumes the entire risk related to use of the data or any information. NOS disclaim liability of any kind whatsoever, including, without limitation, liability for quality, performance, merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In no event will NOS be liable to you or to any third party for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special exemplary damages or lost profit resulting from any use or misuse of the data or any information presented or linked to in the web portal. NOS reserves the right to suspend or discontinue this web portal, or portions thereof, at any time. Observations/Data Observations from mesonets should be considered experimental and not always reliable or accurate. NOAA does not own or operate any of the mesonet sites linked to on this web portal and is not responsible for site maintenance or data accuracy. The links to these mesonets on this web portal are provided as a convenience to the user and does not represent an endorsement of the station and/or mesonet or the observations. There are differences among and sometimes within mesonets in terms of sampling frequency, height of sensors, exposure, observing equipment, etc... This may account for some of the differences in observations when comparing data from nearby stations. If you have questions regarding a particular station or mesonet, please contact the organization responsible for that station or mesonet. Forecast Guidance NWS and NOS forecast guidance is computer model generated predictions from numerical- and/or statistical-based weather, oceanographic, or river models. Model forecast guidance is used for input into other numerical forecasts models and also by NOAA and private sector meteorologists, hydrologists, and oceanographers in generation of worded or gridded weather, river, and/or marine forecasts. Users should always consult final worded or gridded marine, weather, and/or river forecasts, warnings or advisories from local NWS Weather Forecast Offices for their particular activity or application. Disclaimer for 'Weather/Ocean Obs' Selection Observations from non-NOAA, DOD, or FAA stations should be considered experimental and not always reliable or accurate. The links to the other stations are provided as a convenience to the user and does not represent an endorsement by NOS of the station or its observations. The user assumes the entire risk related to use or misuse of the data. web portal http://nowcoast.noaa.gov/viewer.htm None The user must utilize a web browser in order to view or navigate through the web portal. Acceptable web browsers are Internet Explorer 4.0+ and Netscape 4.0+. The user's browser must also have JavaScript enabled. 20020523 20031217 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Office of Coast Survey (OCS), Coast Survey Development Laboratory (CSDL) Cartographic and Geospatial Technology Programs mailing and physical address

1315 East-West Highway, Rm 7101

Silver Spring MD 20910 301-713-2645 x140 Meredith.Westington@noaa.gov Monday - Friday, 9am-5pm FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata FGDC-STD-001-1998 local time None None