Coastal Engineering Data and Software Sources

Tides

• WWW Tide/Current Predictor
• Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services, National Ocean Survey
• Tides Online
• Historical NOAA data
• Canadian Tides, from the Canadian Hydrographic Service

Waves

• U.S. Army Coastal Engineering Data Retrieval System (CEDRS)
• U.S. Army Field Gaging Program
• U.S. Army Prototype Measurement and Analysis Branch, CHL
• NOAA National Data Buoy Center
• Coastal Data Information Program, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• U.S. Navy Fleet Numerical's Wave Model (WAM)
• Queensland, Australia's EPA
• Spain: Puertos del Estado
• Italian Hydrographic and Marine Service
• ARGOSS, NL

Bathymetry

• NOS Mapfinder
• CERC CEDRS (for U.S.)
• NOAA CSC Digital Shoreline Project
• NOAA National Geophysical Data Center
• NOS Hydrographic Survey Data
• Coastal Relief Model
• Global Relief Data
• Maptech Mapserver for nautical charts

Bottom Sediments

• Sea Bed Data

Shorelines

• NOAA Shoreline Data (US only)

Aerial Photography

• USGS National Aerial Photography Program
• USGS Photofinder ($)
• Terraserver

Beach Water Temperature

• NODC Coastal Water Temperature Guide

Weather

• Hurricanes, National Hurricane Center, including historical storm tracks and reports.
• Saffir-Simpson Scale (background)
• Tropical Cyclone Best Track Data Site

Coastal Video Images

• Coastal Imaging Lab, Oregon State University, with a number of sites in the U.S. and the Netherlands, also with archived photos.
• Water Research Laboratory, U.N.S.W., Australia, northern Gold Coast hourly images.

Oceanography

• British Oceanographic Data Center
• (U.S.) National Oceanographic Data Center
• Australian Oceanographic Data Centre
• IAPSO, International Assoc. for the Physical Sciences of the Ocean