Washington marine (saltwater) shorelines including Puget Sound, Hood Canal, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the Pacific coastline. Also includes those portions of Washington's...

Littoral drift, or shore drift, is the process by which beach sediment is moved along the shoreline. Drift results primarily from the oblique approach of wind-generated waves...

The digital maps presented here were originally published as hard copy maps in the Coastal Zone Atlas of Washington between 1978 and 1980. Although the Atlas has been out of...

Bathymetry is the measurement of the depth of large bodies of water. Bathymetry data can be stored in a number of formats including point soundings, isobaths (contours), and...

Bench mark data sheets from the NOAA Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services "Tides and Currents" webpage. These are physical references that are key for...

Pacific Ocean Weather Data captured by NOAA Buoys. The TAO array (renamed the TAO/TRITON array on 1 January 2000) consists of approximately 70 moorings in the Tropical Pacific...

Data sheets from the NOAA Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services "Tides and Currents" webpage. These are one way of describing time series data measured by...