| CO-OPS station 9431647: PORT ORFORD, PACIFIC OCEAN 1-minute Raw Tsunami Water Level
Data |
| CO-OPS has been involved with tsunami warning and mitigation since the Coast and Geodetic
Survey started the Tsunami Warning System in 1948 to provide warnings to the Hawaiian
Islands. After the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, CO-OPS was tasked to coordinate
with the NOAA Tsunami Warning Centers in upgrading existing stations with new Data
Collection Platform (DCP) and communications technology and with expanding the tsunami
warning capabilities of the National Water Level Observation Network (NWLON). Work
began in 2005 to upgrade 33 existing water level stations and install 16 new stations
from the Pacific Ocean to the Caribbean Sea by October 2006. As of September 2006,
all 33 upgrades are complete, as well as 15 of the 16 new installations. As of October
2006, the NWLON consist of 196 long-term water level stations along all U.S. coasts,
including the Great Lakes, Alaska, Hawaii, the Pacific Ocean Island Territories, Puerto
Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
(formerly National Geophysical Data Center) serves as the archive center for these
data and provides the historical data to users. |
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