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
   National Weather Service Sites
   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

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    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
   Global Weather Pages
   Locus Weather
   Marine Weather By Lee
   Marine Weather dot com
   Marine weather forecasting - Nowcasting International
   Oceanweather's Home page
   OCENS (Ocean and Environmentsl Sensing) Satellite Systems
   Real Weather-custom tailored weather forecasts
   Weather Guy.com

Training in the Marine Industry (Meteorology )

   American Practical Navigator[PDF]
   Maritime Institute of Technology & Graduate Studies Training & Conference Center Web Site!
   Ocean Navigator School of Seamanship   
   Starpath School of Navigation
  

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.

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

   NOAA Wave Watch III Model
   OMB Sea Ice Analysis Home page
   OMB Statistical Fog and Visibility Model Output
   OMB Superstructure Ice Accretion 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.  

Sea Surface Temperatures (SST) & Ocean Features

   IMCS; Marine Remote Sensing Lab
   Naval Oceanographic Office Products Page

• Gulf Stream (Black & White)
  

• Gulf Stream (Color)

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.
   Make a Tide Prediction
   Tides Online
   WWW Tide/Current Predictor - Site Selection
   Tides and Tide Prediction with nearly world wide coverage  

Current Stream Flows

   Current Gulf Stream Flow
   Texas Automated Buoy System   

   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   

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
   SE Asia
   Weather Underground of Hong Kong (Click WX Maps)
 

Any suggestions or additions to this list ???  If any of the links on this page do not work, please let us know
so that we can update them.  ( Contact OPC )