This forwarded message may be of interest to the more technical-minded of our kayaking brethren and sistern (sp?) in U.S. waters: New Version of nowCOAST Web Mapping Portal to Real-Time Coastal Observations and NOAA Forecasts Released On May 10th, the NOAA/NOS Coast Survey Development Laboratory released version 2.1 of its nowCOAST Web mapping portal to real-time coastal information for U.S. coastal areas including the Great Lakes. NowCOAST portal ( http://nowcoast.noaa.gov <http://nowcoast.noaa.gov/> ) is a planning aid to assist NOAA users to discover and display real-time observations, point forecast guidance from NOAA's weather, ocean, estuarine, and river forecast models, as well as NWS text forecasts. The portal provides geo-referenced links to real-time meteorological, oceanographic, river, and water quality observations from federal and state networks and regional land and ocean observing systems and also NOAA text forecast products. The new version includes geo-referenced links to an additional 3000+ observing sites from the following real-time observing networks: the Integrated Flooding Observing and Warning System (IFLOWS), the interagency Remote Automated Weather Stations (RAWS), inland Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS), NWS' recently modernized cooperative climate (COOP) stations throughout New England and eastern New York State, now referred to as NOAA's Environmental Real-Time Observation Network (NERON). The IFLOWS stations are located in the Eastern U.S. and measure precipitation and well as stream stage at many locations. The RAWS stations are located throughout the U.S. including National Wildlife Refuges along the coast, and record surface meteorological data and wildfire-related variables (e.g. soil moisture, fuel moisture and temperature). In addition, the new version includes links to observations from mesonets in Louisiana and the Lake Champlain region of Vermont, operated by Louisiana Agriclimatic Information System (LAIS) and the Vermont Monitoring Cooperative, respectively. The new version also includes geo-referenced links to live Web cameras in U.S. coastal states including CAMNET's Real-Time Air Pollution and Visibility Monitoring Web cams. We acknowledge the Web pages operated by NOAA Cooperative Institute for Regional Prediction, the NWS' cooperative Automated Flood Warning System/IFLOWS program, NOAA/FSL's Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS), CAMNET, NWS WFO Burlington, VT, LAIS, and other agencies and educational institutions for providing displays of real-time information for nowCOAST to link to and/or providing metadata on networks. Reminder: In order to use nowCOAST, please turn off pop-up blockers on your Web browser and any toolbars (e.g. Google toolbar). For those using Firefox and Netscape browsers, it is recommended to remove Internet cache files on your computer in order to see the new version of nowCOAST properly. nowCOAST Development Team: ( nowcoast.team_at_noaa.gov) John G.W. Kelley, PI Micah Wengren Michael Allard Meredith Westington NOAA/National Ocean Service's Coast Survey Development Laboratory NOAA-UNH Joint Hydrographic Center -- Dr. Blanche W. Meeson Education, Ocean.US 2300 Clarendon Blvd. Suite 1350 Arlington, VA 22201-3667 b.meeson_at_ocean.us (V): 703-588-0845 (C): 410-991-8527 (F): 703-588-0872 http://www.ocean.us forwarded by Natalie Wiest, Galveston Bay Information Center, etc... *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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