[Ncep.list.nos-nowcoast-status] nowCOAST Status Message

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nowCOAST Status Message

1030 AM EST Friday,  December 7, 2023

NOAA’s nowCOAST Version 6.3 was released today.  The new version provides a
S-100 Product Coverages map service which provides maps of the present
geographic coverage for NOAA’s prototype S-111 Surface Currents and S-102
Bathymetric Surface information being developed to support Precision Marine
Navigation. NOAA's S-100 products are arranged in a tiling and naming
scheme corresponding to the NOAA Reschemed Electronic Navigational Charts
(ENC).  S-100 is an international hydrographic geospatial data standard
that can support a wide variety of hydrographic-related digital data
sources.

Users can select the maps via the nowCOAST map viewer to obtain basic
metadata for the S-111 and/or S-102 data for the geographic area of
interest and download datasets for the selected area, made available
by the NOAA
Open Data Dissemination Program
<https://www.noaa.gov/information-technology/open-data-dissemination>.  The
S-111 Surface Currents files contain the latest forecast guidance from many
NOS Operational Oceanographic Forecast Modeling Systems.  The S-102
Bathymetric Surface contains bathymetric data from NOS National Bathymetric
Source for selected geographic areas.

In addition, one can now obtain via the nowCOAST map viewer the latest NWS
marine weather forecast for U.S. coastal and Great Lakes waters, offshore
waters, and high seas, fire weather zone forecasts, and public weather zone
forecasts.  Please note that the name of the Weather and Waves layer has
been changed to Gridded Forecasts.  Also, users can display the boundaries
of NWS Weather Forecast Office and NWS River Forecast Centers’ areas of
responsibilities.  The boundaries can be found under the Federal Boundaries
overlays.

The coverage maps will be updated as more NOAA prototype S-100 products
become available.

nowCOAST Team

Coastal Marine Modeling Branch

Coast Survey Development Laboratory

NOAA/National Ocean Service
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