Monthly Archives: April 2013

HYCOM Replaces NCOM Global Ocean Forecast

Posted April 24, 2013

On 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...

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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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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.