Category Archives: Voyager News
Hawaiʻi Bathymetry Overlay Now Clickable
Posted July 17, 2013Voyager’s multi-color bathymetry overlay for the main Hawaiian islands is now queryable: clicking on the overlay will pop up a small window with the ocean depth nearest to the...
HFR Surface Currents Extended; Auto-Selection Added
Posted July 15, 2013A recent addition to our high-frequency radio (HFR) antenna arrays has extended the spatial coverage of Voyager’s surface currents overlay for the past month. This relatively new deployment at...
Harbor Surge Forecast
Posted July 12, 2013A new overlay has been added to Voyager’s “hazards” category: a harbor surge forecast for Haleʻiwa Harbor on the North Shore of Oʻahu in Hawaiʻi. Forecasts for other harbors...
Wind and Currents: Display Improvements
Posted July 03, 2013We have completed a couple of improvements to our wind and ocean current overlays in the following categories: satellite data, weather forecasts, tide forecasts, and ocean forecasts. Owing to...
Benthic Habitat Additions: NWHI and Auto-Selection
Posted June 28, 2013To supplement the main Hawaiian islands, Voyager’s “benthic habitats” category now contains NOAA shallow-water benthic habitat maps for the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI), which contains the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National...
Nautical Chart Auto-Selection Utility
Posted June 20, 2013NOAA Raster Navigational Charts (RNCs), commonly referred to as nautical charts, are displayed and kept current within Voyager via the Nautical Charts API developed by Paul Reuter of CORDC/Scripps/UCSD....
CNMI And Guam Atmosphere Models
Posted June 17, 2013Voyager now includes two new high resolution regional atmosphere models for the Mariana Islands region. These Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) mesoscale numerical weather prediction models provide hourly, 7-day...
Upgrade To Google Maps Version 3
Posted June 04, 2013Since its inception, Voyager has been built on top of Version 2 of the Google Maps JavaScript API. Because this version has been deprecated and support will end later...
Insular Pacific Shallow-Water Benthic Habitats
Posted June 04, 2013To supplement the main Hawaiian islands, Voyager’s “benthic habitats” category now contains NOAA shallow-water benthic habitat maps for other PacIOOS regions throughout the insular Pacific, including islands in American...
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...
