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June 1, 2009: The proposal to change the wording on all forecast chart labels from "FROM" to "ISSUED" is proceeding and should be completed in the next month or so. See the OPC FAQ page for details.

Information about the marine impacts of volcanic ash is now available.

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Buoy Observations / Maintenance Status / Outages
Commercial Marine Weather Sites
Training in the Maritime Industry (Meteorology, etc.)
Data Sources: Decoded Ship Observations / Satellite Derived Wind/Sounding Data
Hurricane and Typhoon Information
Nautical Charts
NCEP Marine Forecast Guidance
Numerical Forecast Guidance
Sea Surface Temperatures (SST) & Ocean Features
Tides
World-Wide Weather Maps/European Weather
World-Wide Surface Analysis Graphic Charts

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Marine Weather Sites

Atmospheric Research from the Naval Research Laboratory at Monterey, California.
Coastal Data Information Program, Scripts Institution Of Oceanography
Environment Canada a source of model guidance and marine forecasts provided for Canada.
National Ice Center
OSU Atmospheric Science Marine Program Homepage Click "text data" to get Marine Data from marine areas across the US.
WeatherNet a comprehensive list of weather sites that continues to grow with 300+ sites.
Weather Underground of Hong Kong has information on marine weather in the West Pacific.
Wavescape surfing in South Africa.

Commercial Marine Weather Sites

AccuWeather
Aerospace & Marine International
Applied Weather Technology, Inc.
Buoy Weather - WWW.BUOYWEATHER.COM - Detailed marine weather with real-time Buoy data, WAVEWATCH III Swell Forecasts, NWS marine forecasts, satellite, sea temp, wave and weather models, surf reports and tropical storm info.
Commanders' Weather Corporation
Dooley SeaWeather Analysis Inc
Impact Weather
Locus Weather
Marine Weather By Lee
Marine Weather dot com
Marine weather forecasting - Nowcasting International
Ocean Navigator
Oceanweather's Home page
OCENS (Ocean and Environmentsl Sensing) Satellite Systems
Passage Weather
Real Weather-custom tailored weather forecasts
Weather Guy.com
Weather Routing Incorporated | SeaWeather Online Weather Service - Products include current surface weather analyses, winds/seas forecast maps, radar & satellite imagery, real time observations & text forecasts, WRI weather summaries, and tropical cyclone tracking maps.

Training in the Marine Industry (Meteorology )

Data Sources: Decoded Ship Observations / Satellite Derived Wind/Sounding Data

Decoded Offshore Weather Data
Remotely Sensed Ocean Surface Winds
Satellite Derived Ocean Surface Winds Home Page
GOES-8/9 Atmospheric Soundings
NOAA's nowCOAST - A web plotting tool for surface observations.
Quikscat winds

Buoy Observations / Maintenance Status / Outages

Chesapeake Bay Observing System
NOAA National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) Home Page - Information on elevations of buoys, status of maintenance, graphs of different meteorological variables such as wind speeds, SST, and wave heights.

Hurricane and Typhoon Information

Tropical Prediction Center - issues watches, warnings, forecasts, and analyses of hazardous conditions in the tropics for the Atlantic Ocean and Eastern Pacific E of 140W.
Central Pacific Hurricane Center - issues watches, warnings, forecasts, and analyses of hazardous conditions in the tropics for the Atlantic Ocean and Eastern Pacific W of 140W to the dateline.
Joint Typhoon Warning Center Products - issues warnings on Tropical Systems for areas in the Western Pacific W of the dateline.
Hurricane Hunters Home Page
Experimental Genesis Potential Fields

NCEP Marine Forecast Guidance

Numerical Forecast Guidance

Environment Canada - a source of model guidance and marine forecasts provided for Canada.
Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center
Real Time Pacific Northwest MM5 Simulations - Mesoscale model forecasts run twice a day at the University of Washington.

National Weather Service Sites

Interactive Weather Information Network maintained by the National Weather Service with emphasis on severe weather warnings.
National Weather Service Data and Products maintained by NWS headquarters which has all available NWS marine products.
National Weather Service Headquarters, Office of Meteorology links to various Mariner's Guides to Marine Weather.
National Weather Service Mariner's Weather Log Magazine
NWS Voluntary Observing Ship Program
Ocean Prediction Center's list of NWS Marine Forecast Sites
NWS Marine Product Dissemination Information
National Weather Service Welcome Page
National Weather Service Home pages links to forecast offices.

Nautical Charts

Sea Surface Temperatures (SST) & Ocean Features

IMCS; Marine Remote Sensing Lab
Naval Oceanographic Office Products Page
-Gulf Stream (Black & White)
-Gulf Stream (Color)
NESDIS Sea Surface Temperature Charts
NOAA Imagery from the Space Oceanography Group
RSMAS Satellite Imagery SST
Rutgers University Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences
WorldWide Composite SST from SSEC University of Wisconsin.

Tides

Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) Homepage - Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) collects, analyzes and distributes historical and real-time observations and predictions of water levels, coastal currents and other meteorological and oceanographic data.
Extratropical Storm Surge
Make a Tide Prediction
Tides Online
WWW Tide/Current Predictor - Site Selection
Tides and Tide Prediction with nearly world wide coverage

Current Stream Flows

World-Wide Weather Maps/European Weather

Mediterranean Weather Sources
Meteo France - Satellite Images and other meteorological information from France.
Miscellaneous weather facsimile charts - Marine charts from the regional area forecast center at Bracknell, UK. Also, other miscellaneous weather charts from other international forecast centers around the world.
The Very Useful UK Weather Page
Weather Resources for Ireland

Surface Analysis

Sea Ice Analysis Home page
International Ice Patrol
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Miscellaneous world wide weather facsimile charts
Very Useful UK Weather Page
Pacific
NWS Honolulu
Weather Underground of Hong Kong (Click WX Maps)

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