MARINE OBSERVATION SOURCE · S037
NOAA CoastWatch
Discover marine observations available through NOAA CoastWatch, including parameters, platforms, spatial and temporal coverage, metadata, and access methods.
- Operator
- NOAA NESDIS / CoastWatch
- Role
- Operational satellite ocean data distribution
- Platforms
- Multiple satellite missions/products
- Observed variables
- SST; ocean color; SSH; salinity; winds; waves; sea ice and derived fields
- Spatial coverage
- Global + regional
- Period
- Product-specific; many NRT streams
- Depth coverage
- Mostly surface
- QC and data mode
- Operational product QC
- Access method
- Use CoastWatch ERDDAP/THREDDS to search datasets and subset; direct file services also available
- Indexed download targets
- 1
Canonical parameters
- Absolute salinity
absolute_salinity - Sea-level / barometric pressure
air_pressure_at_sea_level - Air temperature
air_temperature - Ammonium
ammonium - Water depth / bottom depth
bottom_depth - Chlorophyll-a concentration
chlorophyll_a - Cloud amount / cloud fraction
cloud_fraction - Conservative temperature
conservative_temperature - Ocean-current speed
current_speed - Dew-point temperature
dew_point_temperature - Dissolved oxygen concentration
dissolved_oxygen - Eastward ocean current
eastward_sea_water_velocity - Eastward Stokes drift
eastward_stokes_drift - Sea-water conductivity
electrical_conductivity - Nitrate
nitrate - Nitrite
nitrite - Northward ocean current
northward_sea_water_velocity - Northward Stokes drift
northward_stokes_drift - Phosphate
phosphate - Potential density
potential_density - Potential temperature
potential_temperature - Practical salinity
practical_salinity - Precipitation
precipitation - Primary-swell significant height
primary_swell_significant_height - Relative humidity
relative_humidity - Observation depth
sample_depth - Sea-ice concentration
sea_ice_concentration - Sea-ice thickness
sea_ice_thickness - Sea-surface height
sea_surface_height - Sea-surface salinity
sea_surface_salinity - Sea-surface temperature
sea_surface_temperature - Sea-water density
sea_water_density - Sea-water pressure
sea_water_pressure - Sea-water temperature
sea_water_temperature - Significant wave height
significant_wave_height - Visibility
visibility - Wind direction
wind_direction_from - Wind gust
wind_gust - Wind speed
wind_speed - Wind-wave significant height
wind_wave_significant_height
Discovery and access
Very developer-friendly operational endpoint; useful complement to PO.DAAC/Copernicus.