Friday, July 31, 2009

data are now being shared globally

The ICON team has completed work on a feed of data from the Little Cayman station to NOAA's National Data Buoy Center (NDBC). This means that the Little Cayman data will be included in the National Weather Service's (NWS) operational stream and will be made available globally for research and operations. In particular, these data will now be included in the models used by NOAA's National Hurricane Center (NHC) in developing forecasts for hurricanes and tropical storms.

The NDBC website for the Little Cayman station can be found here:

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=lciy2