{"id":39061,"date":"2026-02-18T17:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/trying-to-work-with-noaa-coastal-data-how-are-people-navigating-this\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T17:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:27:07","slug":"trying-to-work-with-noaa-coastal-data-how-are-people-navigating-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/trying-to-work-with-noaa-coastal-data-how-are-people-navigating-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying To Work With NOAA Coastal Data. How Are People Navigating This?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>I\u2019ve been trying to get more familiar with NOAA coastal datasets for a research project, and honestly the hardest part hasn\u2019t been modeling \u2014 it\u2019s just figuring out what data exists and how to navigate it.<\/p>\n<p>I was looking at stations near Long Beach because I wanted wave + wind data in the same area. That turned into a lot of bouncing between IOOS and NDBC pages, checking variable lists, figuring out which station measures what, etc. It felt surprisingly manual.<\/p>\n<p>I eventually started exploring here:<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/aquaview.org\/explore?c=IOOS_SENSORS%2CNDBC&amp;lon=-118.2227&amp;lat=33.7152&amp;z=12.39\">https:\/\/aquaview.org\/explore?c=IOOS_SENSORS%2CNDBC&amp;lon=-118.2227&amp;lat=33.7152&amp;z=12.39<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seeing IOOS and NDBC stations together on a map made it much easier to understand what was available. Once I had the dataset IDs, I pulled the data programmatically through the STAC endpoint:<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/aquaview-sfeos-1025757962819.us-east1.run.app\/api.html#\/\">https:\/\/aquaview-sfeos-1025757962819.us-east1.run.app\/api.html#\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From there I merged:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IOOS\/CDIP wave data (significant wave height + periods)<\/li>\n<li>Nearby NDBC wind observations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Resampled to hourly (2016\u20132025), added a couple lag features, and created a simple extreme-wave label (95th percentile threshold). The actual modeling was straightforward.<\/p>\n<p>What I\u2019m still trying to understand is: what\u2019s the \u201cnormal\u201d workflow people use for NOAA data? Are most people manually navigating portals? Are STAC-based approaches common outside satellite imagery?<\/p>\n<p>Just trying to learn how others approach this. Would appreciate any insight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Signal_Sea9103\"> \/u\/Signal_Sea9103 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1r86suu\/trying_to_work_with_noaa_coastal_data_how_are\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1r86suu\/trying_to_work_with_noaa_coastal_data_how_are\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-39061 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='39061' data-nonce='9941108d62' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-39061 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-39061 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been trying to get more familiar with NOAA coastal datasets for a research project, and honestly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}