Wx NOAA/NOS Marine Observation Add-on
Craig Hunter
hunter-associates@cox.net
August 3, 2005
Function: This add-on downloads tidal, water-level, wave, and weather information from NOAA/NOS CO-OPS monitoring stations along the US coast (includes Alaska and Hawaii), US territories, and the Great Lakes. Some stations provide the full range of data, while others only provide water levels.
The input setting format for this add-on is:
marine_obs:code
where marine_obs is the add-on name and code is a NOAA/NOS monitoring station code. You can lookup station codes from two websites:
Coastal United States and US territories
Great Lakes Region
Each of these websites contain maps which can be used to locate monitoring stations and get the station code (a 7-digit number).
Example: going to the first website, click on Maine, and then click on Bar Harbor (or select it from a pull down menu). Current data for the station are listed, along with the station code of 8413320. The add-on setting for Wx in this case would be:
marine_obs:8413320
You can link multiple monitoring stations into the add-on using a "+" to combine them. For instance:
marine_obs:8413320+marine_obs:8418150
would load data for Bar Harbor, Maine and Portland, Maine into the add-on window for a track (in order listed left to right).
Note: this add-on links to data provided by NOAA's National Ocean Service:
