Computer-modeled water level data fills gaps between tide stations along the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf coasts.
Computer-modeled water level data fills gaps between tide stations along the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf coasts.
The first modeled, historical water level and wave dataset for the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf coasts was released today by NOAA's National Ocean Service (NOS). This comprehensive dataset — known as Coastal Ocean Reanalysis (CORA) — advances NOAA’s ability to better serve the nation’s coastal communities and lays the foundation for future NOAA coastal flooding products.
The CORA dataset delivers more than 40 years of modeled, historical water level and wave information every 500 meters — or roughly every quarter mile — along the U.S. coastline. This long-term water level data was previously only available at NOAA tide gauge locations, which in some areas of the coast can be hundreds of miles apart.
CORA’s denser data resolution between tide gauges closes gaps in data coverage along the coast, ensuring more communities will have access to historical water level data to assess coastal flood risk.
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