Access to Operational Forcast System:

• Model netCDF output

 is available  through the OPeNDAP/NetCDF server

Access to Observational Data:

• Water Level
• Meteorological
• Ancillary

 is available  through the OPeNDAP/DODS server

Access to NWS National Data Buoy Center DODS Data

is available through this OPeNDAP/DODS web page

NDBC's OPeNDAP server offeres the following data types: Acoustic Doppler Current
Profiler data (adcp), Continuous Winds data (cwind), Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of
Tsunamis data (dart), Marsh-McBirney Current Measurements data (mmbcur), Oceanographic data
(ocean), Peak Winds data (pwind), Standard Meteorological data (stdmet),  Spectral Wave
Density data with Spectral Wave Direction data (swden) and Water Level data (wlevel).

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There are four files associated with each set of data, and most of them are automatically generated. The following is brief description of these files: 

(1) Dataset Descriptor Structure (DDS) This file contains a description of the structure of the data  

(2) Data Attribute Structure (DAS) This file contains information about the data, such as the name of the variable, its unit and its type. 

(3) Information (INFO) This HTML page has detailed information about the data in a more readable format. 

(4) Data Request Form (HTML) The OPeNDAP server automatically generates this HTML form based on the input configuration file(s). It serves as an interface to describe the data set. It provides variable selection boxes, which allow users to enter constraints such as applying some Boolean operations on different variables of the dataset, and to build a URL of choice that will display the data they request.