Ocean Conditions Information

This page provides access to web sites that offer information related to ocean conditions. In preparing this feature we were particularly interested in information on conditions that might have an effect on Pacific Northwest anadromous fish.

We were also interested in sites that provide actual data. StreamNet did not produce any of the data found here. We simply researched the available sources and provided links to those we believe to be most informative. We hope you find this feature useful. Please feel free to offer comments or suggestions via our feedback feature.

Table of Contents:

El Niño
Upwelling Indices
Ocean Climate Research
Sea Surface Temperature
Weather
Tides
Other WWW links

U.S.Dept of Commerce / NOAA /PMEL / TAO An El Niño Theme Page: Accessing Distributed Information related to El Nino

Available site information:

• What is an El Niño?
• What are El Niño impacts? forecasts?
• What are the latest realtime El Niño measurements?
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Where is El Niño data?
• Definitions of El Niño, La Nina, and ENSO

Sevilleta Long-Term Ecological Research Project (LTER) / RKM University of New Mexico ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) Home Page

Available site information:

• Time Series Plot of Southern Oscillation Index (SOI)
• Table of SOI Values (1882-1997)

West Coast Regional Node National Marine Fisheries Service

Available site information:

• West Coast Regional CoastWatch Node Information
• West Coast El Niño Watch Advisories
• Satellite Image Products
• Other CoastWatch WWW servers

Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Marine Fisheries Service Southwest Fisheries Science Center

Available site information:

• Upwelling Indices at 15 positions along the west coast of North America
• six-hourly upwelling indices
• daily upwelling indices
• monthly mean upwelling indices and anomalies
• comprehensive air/ocean flow indices
• air/ocean data from NOAA moored buoys

Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center(FNMOC)

Fleet Numerical is one of the world's foremost oceanographic and atmospheric analysis and forecasting centers.
Specializing in Meteorology, Oceanography, and Satellite and Satellite-derived Imagery on a Global Scale.

Available site information:

• OTIS - Optimum Thermal Interpolation System (Sea Surface Temperatures)
• WAM - Wave Model (Wave Heights)
• NORAPS (Navy Operational Regional Atmospheric Prediction System)
• Satellite Imagery

Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL)

Available site information:

• Ocean Environment Research
• Coastal and Arctic Research
• Ocean Climate Research
• The Tropical Atmosphere Ocean Array TAO (buoy array)

NOAA Environmental Services Data Directory

Available site information:

From the NOAA Environmental Services Data Directory you can perform full text searchs of all these sites:

• NOAA National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
• NOAA National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
• NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)
• National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
• NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
• Historical Data Sets from Central NOAA Libraries (LISD)
• Historical Data Sets from NCDC Libraries (FDL)
• All other NOAA Sites (ESDD)

National Climatic Data Center(NCDC)

Available site information:

• Products, Publications and Services
• On-Line Data Access
• Interactive Visualization of Climate Data
• Climate Research Programs
• World Data Center for Meteorology

Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (COADS)

Overview

As the result of a U.S. project starting in 1981, available global surface marine data for (currently) 1854-1993 have been assembled, quality controlled, and made widely available to the international research community in easily used products of the Comprehensive
Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (COADS). The project is a continuing cooperative enterprise between NOAA--its Environmental Research
Laboratories (ERL)/ Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC), NESDIS/ National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)/Global Climate Laboratory
(GCL), and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES, conducted jointly with the University of Colorado)--and
the National Science Foundation's National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

COADS individual marine reports, complete sets of statistics, and other products from Release 1 (1854-1979), Release 1b (1950-79), and Release 1a (originally 1980-92; now extended through 1995), can be ordered from NCAR's Data Support Section.

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National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

Available site information:

• Weather Information
• Weather Education
• Real-Time Weather Data-Aviation page

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)

Available site information:

• Real-Time Weather Data-Aviation page

Oregon Climate Service  OCS is affiliated with the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.

Available site information:

University of Washington Atmospheric Science Weather Information

Available site information:

• Radar Imagery
• Satellite Imagery
• Local Weather Data
• National Weather Data
• Local Forecasts
• National Forecasts
• Pacific NW Regional
• Model Forecasts (MM5)
• Climatological Data
• Description of major local weather features
• Other Weather Servers

Central California Forecast Office of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)

Available site information:

• Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System (COAMPS)
• Master Environmental Library (MEL)
• Mediterranean Gale Force Winds Expert System
• Naval Aviation Support Product Development
• Satellite Products
• Shipboard Tactical Atmospheric Forecast Capability (STAFC)
• Satellite Training Application
• NRL Adaptive Observation Program

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Oregon State University  Hatfield Marine Science Center (HMSC)  Newport, OR

Available site information:

• Tide Predictions

WWW Tide and Current Predictor University of South Carolina

Available site information:

• Harmonic tide and current speed predictor for the World Wide Web
• XTide Program

Ocean & Lake Levels Division

The Ocean and Lake Levels Division (OLLD) is located in the Office of Ocean and Earth Sciences, National Ocean Service,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Dept. of Commerce. OLLD is responsible for the management of the
U.S. National Water Level Program.

Available site information:

• Tide and tidal current predictions
• Physical Oceanographic Real-Time Systems (PORTS)

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U.S. Government Meteorology, Oceanography, and Weather Links

SIO Shore Station Information  Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA;

Marine Life Research Group (MLRG)

The Marine Life Research Group is a group of scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography that study the physics, chemistry,
biology, and meteorology of the California Current. MLRG scientists, along with the other California Cooperative Oceanic
Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) groups (the Coastal Fisheries Resources Division of the Southwest Fisheries Science Center
[NOAA / NMFS], and the Calif. Dept. of Fish & Game) conduct quarterly cruises off California, continuing the time-series study of
the California Current ecosystem established in 1949.

These data provide a relatively long time series of coastal sea surface temperatures (18 stations) and salinities (7 stations) from southern California to northern Washington.

School of Ocean & Earth Science & Technology  University of Hawaii Sea Level Center

The University of Hawaii Sea Level Center (UHSLC) provides three online databases; the research quality
data, the World Ocean Circulation Experiment "fast delivery" data, and the IGOSS Sea Level Program in the Pacific map data.

Available site information:

• Research quality database
• World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) "fast delivery" database
• ISLP-Pac map database

Last Modified: Monday October 09 2006