NOAA Ocean Data
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Ask NOAA's ocean data a question. Nothing to connect.
NOAA's own sites want a station ID before a wave height, and a token before a decade of readings. Papercrane turns the same public tide, buoy, and climate data into a live dashboard, and there's nothing to authorize first.
Nothing to connect. Free to ask. Paid plans start when you publish a dashboard. See pricing
Real data. No dashboard.
NOAA's own sites are free and reliable, but built for developers: a station ID before a wave height, a token before a decade of readings, one station and one product per chart. Papercrane turns the same public data into a live dashboard from a sentence, no ID lookup first.
NDBC: buoy data, built for scientific computing · CO-OPS: tide and water level, built for developers · NCEI: climate history, needs a token
Three NOAA sites, one board
Tide, wave height, sea temperature, and climate history live in three separate NOAA systems that don't share a screen with each other. Ask one question and Papercrane's agent builds a dashboard that pulls from all three, tagged by source, in one conversation.
Harbor conditions, this morning
Current wave height and tide stage
4.1 ft, rising tide
NDBC buoy · CO-OPS tide station
Sea surface temperature, right now
58°F
NDBC buoy
Sea surface temperature, 10 year average for this month
57.6°F
NCEI climate records
= one board, one harbor
your dashboard
Example: a Pacific coast harbor with a nearby buoy and tide station. Wave height 4.1 ft, water temp 58°F, this month's average 57.6°F. Pick your own coastal spot and the agent finds its stations the same way.
Ask it what you'd otherwise look up three times
What's the sea surface temperature at our nearest buoy right now?
What's the wave height and tide stage for this harbor this afternoon?
How does this month's water temperature compare with the ten year average here?
Which of our stations logged the highest wave height this week?
What was the water temperature on this date last year?
Plot the last 30 days of wave height against the tide schedule.
Every answer comes back as a chart on a live dashboard, tagged by station, not a table you have to decode.
Who's already checking this every morning
Harbor masters and marina operators watch water level and seaport conditions daily, the same job NOAA built PORTS® for; fisheries, aquaculture, and dive or charter operators plan around temperature and wave height; researchers pull the climate record for longer studies. Sailors, surfers, and anglers who don't want to learn a station ID do the same thing on their own time.
When you don't need us
If you just want to know whether it's good to surf today, get Surfline. It runs proprietary wave models and camera coverage at more than 500 breaks, and we don't build surf forecasts, we show you the numbers NOAA already measured. If you want a live global wind and weather map to sail or fly by, Windy already does that well, for free. Papercrane is worth it when you want your own board: one harbor's tide, wave, and history together, or NOAA data joined with your own bookings, logs, or trip notes.
Questions people ask us
Ocean data alone doesn't know your bookings or your field notes. Researchers and marina teams usually add a spreadsheet or a database for that.
Pick a harbor, ask what the water's doing, and see tide, wave, and temperature on one board.
Nothing to connect. Free to ask. Paid plans start at publishing. See pricing
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