What's New at the NDBC Web Site?

2009

• October - Discontinued project. Station 42040 has been disestablished. Historical data are available here.

• October - NDBC is now providing Keyhole Markup Language (KML) files which contain platform locations, recent observations (if available) and other information. The KML files are available either by Program or by Owner and can be viewed using applications such as Google Earth or NASA Whirlwind. Click here to access the kml links.

• September - Discontinued project. Station THIN6, Thousand Islands Bridge NY, has been disestablished. Historical data are available here.

• August - NDBC will stop supporting outdated links on December 1, 2009. Click here for more information.

• August - CarICOOS becomes latest IOOS partner! The Caribbean Integrated Coastal Ocean Observing System (CarICOOS, http://www.caricoos.org/) has deployed a buoy south of Caja de Muertos Island, which is southeast of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Data from the buoy are reported as Station 42085. CarICOOS is the observing arm of the Caribbean Regional Association for Integrated Coastal Ocean Observing (CaRA, http://cara.uprm.edu/)

• July - NDBC Involved with NOAA Effort to Study Ocean Currents near Former Munitions Disposal Sites in Hawaii. Click here for more information.

• July - NOAA asks mariners to safeguard Pacific data buoys. See the NOAA press release at: http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/20090722_buoydamage.html

• July - NDBC has added the Coast Guard Light List Numbers (LLNR) for buoys to each buoy's station page, if the Coast Guard (CG) has assigned an LLNR to a buoy. The LLNR is also a hyperlink to the CG Navigation Center homepage with access to each CG District's current Light List. The Light Lists describe the lights, sound signals, buoys, daybeacons, and other aids to navigation. If the buoy is a dual purpose Aid to Navigation (ATON), the name of the ATON has also been added to the station page. This not only helps the CG and other mariners correlate NDBC buoys to ATON in the Light List Publications, but helps quickly identify drifters in broadcast notice to mariners.

• July - NDBC has created mobile device accessible web pages so you can get current marine observations on your mobile device.

• June - Discontinued project. Station 51028, Christmas Island, has been disestablished. Historical data for 51028 are available here.

• June - Station 44004, HOTEL, has been disestablished and replaced by 44066, which is about 120 nm northwest of 44004's nominal position. 44004's historical data are available here.

• May - Updated firmware includes new DART messages, click here for more information.

2008

• December - NDBC has created an NDBC Observation Page using an interactive Google Map displaying stations reported on the NDBC web site. The default display is a global map showing all established stations from the NDBC web site. The user can select stations by program and/or operator; pan and zoom to his favorite location; bookmark a favorite view; and click a station marker for recent observations.

• April - Discontinued project. - Stations 46023 and 46054 will be disestablished at the first available opportunity. The stations are non-NWS funded stations for which the operating agreement between the NWS and the Program Sponsor has expired and will not be renewed. In the absence of the stations, the NOAA-NDBC directs the 46023 users to station 46011 (Santa Maria, CA) and 46054 users to station 46063 (Point Conception, CA) which are currently located eleven (11) nautical miles from the disestablished stations.

• March - DART buoy network expansion complete! NDBC deployed a new water level measuring buoy in the Pacific. This completes the planned expansion of the NOAA tsunami reporting network and brings the total number of DART stations to 39.

• February - DART buoy network expanded. NDBC deployed four new DART buoys in the Pacific. This brings the total number of DART water level measuring stations in the NOAA tsunami reporting network to 38.

• January - Waves/ocean buoy at Buzzards Bay! NDBC established WAMDAS buoy 44070 and added it to the Rhode Island map.

2007

• December - Wave Rider buoy added to the North Carolina map! The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers established station 44056 at Duck, NC.

• December - Waves/ocean buoy at Cook Inlet, Alaska! NDBC established WAMDAS buoy 46106 and added it to the Prince William Sound map.

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