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NOAA Tides & Currents

Description

The Tides & Currents website is an authoritative source for accurate, reliable, and timely water-level and ocean-current measurements that support safe and efficient maritime commerce, sound coastal management, and recreation. Information on the site comes from NOAA's Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) and its predecessors—agencies that have gathered oceanographic data along the nation's coasts for over 200 years.

This online portal provides a wide variety of data and tools that communities can use to assess coastal risks associated with projected climate change and variability, including:

  • Tide and water level information, including water levels, tide predictions, sea level trends, extreme water levels, and inundation analysis
  • Harmful algal bloom (HAB) forecasts
  • Current station data and tables, and historical data, for currents
  • Port information for 25 different ports across the country
  • Meteorological observations
  • Water temperature and conductivity data
  • Astronomical data 

Tides & Currents also features a library of CO-OPS publications, including educational and outreach publications, economic valuations and assessments, and technical reports, and educational materials for teachers and students.

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  • Boston cityscape. Bert Kaufmann, Roermond, Netherlands. CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), via Wikimedia Commons