NCEI will decommission the Global Ocean Currents Database and web portal on 15 May, 2025. Upon termination, the underlying data files will be available at http://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/global-ocean-currents-database, but this website will no longer exist. Comments and questions may be sent to ncei.info@noaa.gov.
The dataset contains surface ocean currents data derived from high frequency (HF) radar systems. For the purpose of demonstration, the current coverage of the dataset is 2016/04. Data are stored in the GOCD NetCDF format for gridded or point feature types.
NOTE: The actual retrieval time will depend on the volume of the dataset being retrieved. Users may experience map problems when there are too many data points.
Year/Month | US East & Gulf Coast | US West Coast | US Hawaii | Puerto Rico |
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2016/04 |
○ GOCD CSV files ○ GOCD NetCDF files |
○ GOCD CSV files ○ GOCD NetCDF files |
○ GOCD CSV files ○ GOCD NetCDF files |
○ GOCD CSV files ○ GOCD NetCDF files |