Category Archives: Voyager News

Insular Pacific Maritime Boundaries

Posted April 12, 2013

While previously limited to Hawaiʻi, Voyager’s “maritime boundaries” category has been spatially expanded to include our other PacIOOS regions throughout the insular Pacific. Using data from the NOAA Office...

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Aquarius Sea Surface Salinity

Posted April 05, 2013

Thanks to updates at NOAA OceanWatch, Voyager now provides weekly and monthly global sea surface salinity from NASA’s Aquarius mission. Aquarius was launched aboard the SAC-D satellite on June...

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Hawaiʻi Beach Water Quality Monitoring

Posted April 05, 2013

Voyager’s “water quality” category now includes an overlay of coastal water quality measurements sampled by the Beach Monitoring Quality Assurance Program of the State of Hawaiʻi Department of Health...

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Coral Reefs: Spatial Distribution

Posted March 19, 2013

Voyager’s “fish & wildlife” category now includes a global spatial distribution map for coral reefs. It was compiled in 2010 from numerous data sources by UNEP-WCMC and the WorldFish...

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Tagged Tiger Sharks: Spatial Distribution

Posted March 11, 2013

Voyager’s “fish & wildlife” category now includes a spatial distribution map for tiger sharks in Hawaiʻi. This overlay represents the aggregated locations of twelve individual sharks tagged with sensors...

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Samoa Wave Models

Posted February 19, 2013

Voyager now includes two new high resolution regional wave models for the Samoa region: NOAA WaveWatch III (NWW3) at approximately 5-km or 0.05-degree resolution for the Samoan Islands region...

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Hawaiʻi Beach Safety

Posted February 11, 2013

An overlay of nearshore and offshore safety conditions has been added to Voyager’s “hazards” category based on the popular Hawaiʻi Beach Safety website. This provides Hawaiʻi beach users with...

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High Sea Level And Wave Run-Up Forecasts

Posted February 05, 2013

Two new overlays have been added to Voyager’s “hazards” category: high sea level forecasts and wave run-up forecasts at select harbors and beaches around the Pacific. Clicking on a...

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AVISO Merged Altimetry

Posted January 28, 2013

Thanks to updates at NOAA OceanWatch, Voyager now provides daily, weekly, and monthly AVISO merged altimetry, replacing the previously provided Jason-1 product. This dataset merges Jason-1, Jason-2, and TOPEX/Poseidon...

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Global Ship Traffic

Posted January 28, 2013

Voyager now includes an overlay of global ship traffic. You can find this by selecting “ship routes” under the “navigation” category of the left-hand overlay selection menu. PacIOOS derived...

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Did you know?

PacIOOS is the first regional association that was certified as a Regional Information Coordination Entity (RICE) by the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS). Certification provides NOAA and its interagency partners a means to verify that a regional association’s organizational and operational practices, including data management, meet recognized and established standards set by NOAA.