Historical Charts are not for Navigation. The collection primarily consists of historic charts and maps produced by NOAA's Coast Survey and its predecessors, especially the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and the U.S. Lake Survey (previously under the Department of War). The collection also includes bathymetric maps, land sketches, Civil War battle maps, aeronautical charting from the 1930s to the 1950s, and other drawings and photographs.

The Historical Map and Chart Collection of the Office of Coast Survey contains over 35000 historical maps and charts from the mid 1700s up through the 2020s, including the final cancelled editions of NOAA's raster charts. These images are available for viewing or download through the image catalog at https://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/. The Collection includes some of the nation's earliest nauti...

The Historical Map and Chart Collection of the Office of Coast Survey contains over 20000 historical maps and charts from the mid 1700s through the late 1900s. These images are available for viewing or download through the image catalog at https://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/historicals/search . The Collection includes some of the nation's earliest nautical charts, hydrographic surveys, topographic surveys, geodetic surveys, city plans and Civil War battle maps. The Collection is a rich primary historical archive and a testament to the artistry of copper plate engraving technology of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Notable offerings include maps of Vancouver's explorations, the "Wilkes Atlas" of the U.S. Whistler's Anacapa Island chart, an extensive Civil War collection, a large scale topographic series of Washington, D.C., city plans, the reengraving of the famous 1792 L'Enfant and Ellicott plan for Washington D.C., and many artistic perspective sketches that were once an integral part of hydrographic surveys and published charts.

NOAA, National Ocean Service, Office of Coast Survey, Marine Chart Division is responsible to build and maintain a suite of more than 1000 nautical charts that are used by commercial and recreational mariners to navigate the United States and U. S. territory waters safely.A Nautical Chart is a graphic portrayal of the marine environment. They are used to lay out courses and navigate ships by the shortest and most economically safe route. They can also serve as base maps for resource management and shoreline development planning by state and local government.Charts depict the location of the shoreline, minimum water depths, aids to navigation, hazards to navigation, the nature and form of the coast, water depths, the general character and configuration of the sea bottom, the rise and fall of the tides, protected areas, and the characteristics of the Earth's magnetism.The suite of charts is compiled and maintained with data provided by federal, state, and private partners such as the National Ocean Service elements, United States Coast Guard, United States Army Corps of Engineers, United States Power Squadron Auxiliary, Port Authorities.The charts are currently available as Lithographically printed paper charts, Electronic Raster Nautical Charts (RNCs), up-to-date paper charts (printed with print on demand technology), and are now offered as Digital Vector Electronic Nautical Charts (ENC).The NOAA RNCs are electronic images of the NOAA paper charts. The NOAA RNCs were productized with a successful Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with private sector partner BSB Electronic Charts, a subsidiary of Maptech, Inc. Andover, Massachusetts. As of November 1, 2005 the NOAA RNC's are available for free download via the NOAA website.

Dewberry contracted TRE Altamira Inc (TREA) for a historical InSAR analysis of ground displacement over the East Coast of the United States of America (U.S.A.), for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The area of interest (AOI) includes the major coastal cities and coastal plains and covers over 500,000 km2 (193,000 mi2).

TREAs proprietary SqueeSAR algorithm was used...

UPDATE TO GHCN PREFIXES - The NODD team is working on improving performance and access to the GHCNd data and will be implementing an updated prefix structure. For more information on the prefix changes, please see the "READ ME on the NODD Github". If you have questions, comments, or feedback, please reach out to nodd@noaa.gov with GHCN in the subject line.

Global Historical Climatology Network - Daily is a dataset from NOAA that contains daily observations over global land areas. It contains station-based measurements from land-based stations worldwide, about two thirds of which are for precipitation measurement only. Other meteorological elements include, but are not limited to, daily maximum and minimum temperature, temperature at the time of observation, snowfall and snow depth. It is a composite of climate records from numerous sources that were merged together and subjected to a common suite of quality assurance reviews. Some data are more than 175 years old. The data is in CSV format. Each file corresponds to a year from 1763 to present and is named as such.

This archived Paleoclimatology Study is available from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), under the World Data Service (WDS) for Paleoclimatology. The associated NCEI study type is Historical. The data include parameters of historical with a geographic location of United States Of America. The time period coverage is from 144 to 76 in calendar years before present (BP). See metadata information for parameter and study location details. Please cite this study when using the data.

Cities were selected based on lengths of existing climate records, which start at least earlier than 1900. However, cities may miss substantial amounts of data during their periods of record. Each file provides available historical daily maximum and minimum temperature and daily precipitation data for one U.S. city. File was named by the city's current active weather station ID (Global Historical Climatology Network, GHCN ID). Each city may include records from one or multiple stations. Listed latitude and longitude for each city are from the city's current active weather station. Daily maximum and minimum temperature and daily precipitation were acquired from Applied Climate Information System (ACIS), developed by the NOAA Northeast Regional Climate Center (NRCC). The historical observations from ACIS belong to Global Historical Climatological Network - daily (GHCN-D) datasets. The included stations were based on NRCC’s “ThreadEx” project, which combined daily temperature and precipitation extremes at 255 NOAA Local Climatological Locations, representing all large and medium size cities in U.S. (see Owen et al. (2006). Accessing NOAA Daily Temperature and Precipitation Extremes Based on Combined/Threaded Station Records). Resources:

See included README file for more information.

Additional technical details and analyses can be found in: Lai, Y., & Dzombak, D. A. (2019). Use of historical data to assess regional climate change. Journal of climate, 32(14), 4299-4320. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0630.1

Other datasets from the same project can be accessed at: https://kilthub.cmu.edu/projects/Use_of_historical_data_to_assess_regional_climate_change/61538

ACIS database for historical observations: http://scacis.rcc-acis.org/

GHCN-D datasets can also be accessed at: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/global-historical-climatology-network-daily/

• 2024 August updated -

  Temperature and precipitation records for 2022 and 2023 were added (using the records from GHCN-D at: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/global-historical-climatology-network-daily/).

  Note that future updates may be infrequent.

• 2022 January updated -

  Temperature and precipitation records for 2021 were added (using the records from GHCN-D at: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/global-historical-climatology-network-daily/).

• 2021 January updated -

  Temperature and precipitation records for 2020 were added (using the records from GHCN-D at: ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/).

• 2020 January updated -

  Temperature and precipitation records for 2019 were added (using the records from GHCN-D at: ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/).

  CITY_ID.csv files were already filled the missing values (represented with NA) to make to continuous time series from start of record to the end of 2019. CITY_ID_fill.csv files from the older version were deleted.

• 2019 June updated -

  Baltimore (USW00093721) data for 2018 was updated (previously 2018 data appeared to be NA). Original files for Baltimore were removed.

  The GHCN ID for Baltimore was updated to be the ID for Baltimore-Washington International AP. city_info file was updated accordingly.

The Global Historical Tsunami Database provides information on over 2,400 tsunamis from 2100 BC to the present in the the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans; and the Mediterranean and Caribbean Seas. The database includes two related files. The first file includes information on the tsunami source such as the date, time, and location of the source event; cause and validity of the source, tsunami magnitude and intensity; maximum water height; the total number of fatalities, injuries, houses destroyed, and houses damaged; and total damage estimate (in U.S. dollars). The second related file contains information on the runups (the locations where tsunami waves were observed by eyewitnesses, reconnaissance surveys, tide gauges, and deep-ocean sensors) such as name, location, arrival time, maximum water height and inundation distance, and socio-economic data (deaths, injuries, damage) for the specific runup location.

This data set contains mean monthly temperatures and total monthly precipitation for stations in Alaska from the mid-1800s to 1990. The values are a subset of the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN), archived at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

NOAA's Climate Data Records (CDRs) are robust, sustainable, and scientifically sound climate records that provide trustworthy information on how, where, and to what extent the land, oceans, atmosphere and ice sheets are changing. These datasets are thoroughly vetted time series measurements with the longevity, consistency, and continuity to assess and measure climate variability and change. NOAA CDRs are vetted using standards established by the National Research Council (NRC).

Climate Data Records are created by merging data from surface, atmosphere, and space-based systems across decades. NOAA’s Climate Data Records provides authoritative and traceable long-term climate records. NOAA developed CDRs by applying modern data analysis methods to historical global satellite data. This process can clarify the underlying climate trends within the data and allows researchers and other users to identify economic and scientific value in these records. NCEI maintains and extends CDRs by applying the same methods to present-day and future satellite measurements.

Atmospheric Climate Data Records are measurements of several global variables to help characterize the atmosphere at or just above the land and ocean surface as well as other upper air composition variables.

This web map was developed to show the geographic distribution of the oral history interviews contained within the archive of the NOAA Voices program. This map is used in the NOAA Voices Oral History Interview Mapping Application, found here: https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=a220357bec444ab0be7e586fb5ecd26eEach interview is treated as a separate data point with a variety of attributes. These attributes include: narrator, interviewer, date of interview, city, state, interviewer, project, link to interview, and interview description.Each point in this dataset is plotted at the city level. The size of these points is directly tied to the number of interviews within that location.The data and metadata for this application can be found on the NOAA Voices website, here: https://voices.nmfs.noaa.gov/. Each interview has its own landing page on the NOAA Voices site, and the information on these landing pages mirrors the data in this application.

Aggregated historical weather data from multiple public sources including NOAA, with an easy Python interface.

Free for public use; check individual sources; generally under CC BY or public domain conditions

Historical data for Nokia Oyj (HAM:NOAA), including annual and quarterly figures with up to 30 years of history.

To preserve NEFSC historical data, images of biological and oceanographic data sheets (1948-1975) were scanned to digital format and can be queried through a portal on the NEFSC website. Images may include: cruise instructions, cruise tracks, original trawl logs, length frequency data sheets, cruise notes, tagging information and fisherman reports.

NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) Historical Hydrology, Analysis of Record for Calibration (AORC), air temperature data for the AORC ABRFC (Oklahoma) region, using data from https://hydrology.nws.noaa.gov/aorc-historic/AORC_ABRFC_4km/ . Instantaneous 2-m above ground temperature valid at nominal file time, and 1-h precipitation accumulation ending at the nominal file time. The period covered is 5 January 1979 to 31 December 2017. Data are stored at a precision of 0.1K and 0.1mm. Data are unprojected, that is, defined by a latitude/longitude grid. File collections on the ftp server are from a thinned AORC grid at a spacing of 0.032 degrees, approximately 4-km mesh.

NOAA Climate Data Online provides access to historical weather and climate data from thousands of stations worldwide, with some records dating back to 1763. Datasets include Daily Summaries (GHCND), Monthly Summaries (GSOM), Annual Summaries (GSOY), and high-frequency precipitation data. Measurements cover temperature, precipitation, snowfall, wind speed, humidity, and atmospheric pressure. Data can be filtered by location, station, date range, and data type, and returned in standard or metric units.

Data on marine mammal strandings are collected by the Southeast Marine Mammal Stranding Network. Basic data on the location, species identification, animal condition, and disposition (Level A data) are contributed by network members to the NOAA National Marine Mammal Stranding Database. Historical data collected prior to 2001 in the Southeast US and Caribbean and associated paper records are...

Livneh and nClimGrid are gridded observed historical climatology data that were used in the LOCA2 and STAR-ESDM downscaling process of global climate models as part of the 5th National Climate Assessment. The original Livneh and nClimGrid daily temperature and precipitation observations have been converted to a series of decision-relevant thresholds as part of the (U.S. Climate Resilience Information System (CRIS)). These thresholds, such as days with extreme heat or precipitation, have been calculated to match the future projections from LOCA2 and STAR, also available in CRIS.

This map contains continuously updated U.S. tornado reports, wind storm reports and hail storm reports. Click each feature to receive information about the specific location and read a short description about the issue. Now contains ALL available Incident Report types, for a total of 15, not just Hail; Wind; and Tornados.See new layer for details or Feature Layer Item with exclusive Past 24-Hour ALL Storm Reports Layer. Each layer is updated 4 times hourly from data provided by NOAA’s National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center. A full archive of storm events can be accessed from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. SourceNOAA Storm Prediction Center https://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reportsNOAA ALL Storm Reports layer https://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/reports Sample DataSee Sample Layer Item for sample data during inactive periods! Update FrequencyThe service is updated every 15 minutes using the Aggregated Live Feeds Methodology Area CoveredCONUS (Contiguous United States) What can you do with this layer? This map service is suitable for data discovery and visualization.Change the symbology of each layer using single or bi-variate smart mapping. For instance, use size or color to indicate the intensity of a tornado.Click each feature to receive information about the specific location and read a short description about the issue.Query the attributes to show only specific event types or locations. RevisionsJan 26, 2028: Updated field aliases, descriptions and value types to improve clarity.Aug 10, 2021: Updated Classic Layers to use new Symbols. Corrected Layer Order Presentation. Updated Thumbnail.Aug 8, 2021: Update to layer-popups, correcting link URLs. Expanded length of 'Comment' fields to 1kb of text. New Layer added that includes ALL available Incident Types and Age in 'Hours Old'. This map is provided for informational purposes and is not monitored 24/7 for accuracy and currency.If you would like to be alerted to potential issues or simply see when this service will update next, please visit our Live Feed Status Page.