Description
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has created this page to locate, identify, and provide links to NOAA's line offices and their major marine observing systems. Together these marine observing systems form the US National Marine Observations Backbone. The major observing systems are:
- NOAA's National Weather Service's NDBC Ocean Observing System (NWS NOOS) comprised of moored buoys and Coastal Marine Automated Network stations, Voluntary Observing Ship (VOS) program, and Deep-Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis (DART) buoy array.
- NOAA's National Ocean Service's (NOS) National Water Level Observation Network (NWLON) and their Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System (PORTS).
- NOAA's Tropical Moored Buoy (TMB) projects, consisting of the Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) / Triangle Trans-Ocean Buoy Network (TRITON) (TAO/TRITON) array, with stations operated by NOAA's Office of Atmospheric Research (OAR) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) and Japan, respectively, and the Pilot Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic (PIRATA) array, with stations operated by PMEL, Brazil, and France.
- NOAA's OAR drifting buoy programs.
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Instructions
To locate a particular station of interest, select the network and click on the desired area of the world map. Stations matching the requested criteria will be displayed on the map along with some brief information about the provider. You may zoom in or out as desired.
To view data for a station, select "Select Station" in the Zoom list and click on the desired station symbol on the map. If your station selection is not able to be determined then the map will be redisplayed using a zoom factor of two.
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