Monthly Archives: April 2013
HYCOM Replaces NCOM Global Ocean Forecast
Posted April 24, 2013On April 5, 2013 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) stopped generating output for its Navy Coastal Ocean Model (NCOM). Since NCOM is retired, we have replaced Voyager’s global...
Insular Pacific Maritime Boundaries
Posted April 12, 2013While 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...
Aquarius Sea Surface Salinity
Posted April 05, 2013Thanks 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...
Hawaiʻi Beach Water Quality Monitoring
Posted April 05, 2013Voyager’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...