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 http://chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov/csdl/ctp/abstract.htmThe 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.

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 to process Sentinel-1 (SNT) satellite imagery acquired between January 2017 and July 2023 and the results were calibrated using the NOAA's CORS GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) network for the generation of vertical InSAR (SAR Interferometry) measurements.

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 Massachusetts, United States Of America. The time period coverage is from 330 to 51 in calendar years before present (BP). See metadata information for parameter and study location details. Please cite this study when using the data.

Note that 2013 and 2014 datasets are available for download in the attachment tab below.The journal article describing GHCN-Daily is: Menne, M.J., I. Durre, R.S. Vose, B.E. Gleason, and T.G. Houston, 2012: An overview of the Global Historical Climatology Network-Daily Database. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 29, 897-910, doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-11-00103.1.Menne, M.J., I. Durre, B. Korzeniewski, S. McNeal, K. Thomas, X. Yin, S. Anthony, R. Ray, R.S. Vose, B.E.Gleason, and T.G. Houston, 2012: Global Historical Climatology Network - Daily (GHCN-Daily), Version 3. [indicate subset used following decimal, e.g. Version 3.12]. NOAA National Climatic Data Center. http://doi.org/10.7289/V5D21VHZ

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.

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 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 China, Eastern Asia. The time period coverage is from 306 to 39 in calendar years before present (BP). See metadata information for parameter and study location details. Please cite this study when using the data.

This interactive mapping application easily searches and displays global tropical cyclone data. Users are able to query storms by the storm name, geographic region, or latitude/longitude coordinates. Custom queries can track storms of interest and allow for data extraction and download.Searches and displays tropical cyclone track data by ZIP Code, latitude and longitude coordinates, city, state, or geographic region and then displays the selected tracks on a mapDisplays coastal population data and hurricane strike data for coastal counties from Maine to TexasProvides access to storm reports written by hurricane specialists at the National Hurricane Center. Reports are available for the Atlantic and East-Central Pacific BasinsBuilds custom Uniform Resource Locator (URL) strings that users can follow from personal websites to the on-line mapping application with specific storm tracksThese data were derived from National Hurricane Center HURDAT data (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastall.shtml) and International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS) data (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ibtracs/). Metadata for each dataset can be found on their respective websites.

Data include: source location, date, and time, event magnitude, maximum water height, total number of deaths, injuries and damage for the event.

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.

Terrestrial CDRs are composed of sensor data that have been improved and quality controlled over time, together with ancillary calibration data.

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.

The National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) distributes meteorological data from moored buoys maintained by NDBC and others. Moored buoys are the weather sentinels of the sea. They are deployed in the coastal and offshore waters from the western Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean around Hawaii, and from the Bering Sea to the South Pacific. NDBC's moored buoys measure and transmit barometric pressure; wind direction, speed, and gust; air and sea temperature; and wave energy spectra from which significant wave height, dominant wave period, and average wave period are derived. Even the direction of wave propagation is measured on many moored buoys. See https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/measdes.shtml for a description of the measurements.

The source data from NOAA NDBC has different column names, different units, and different missing values in different files, and other problems (notably, lots of rows with duplicate or different values for the same time point). This dataset is a standardized, reformatted, and lightly edited version of that source data, created by NOAA NMFS SWFSC ERD (email: erd.data at noaa.gov). Before 2020-01-29, this dataset only had the data that was closest to a given hour, rounded to the nearest hour. Now, this dataset has all of the data available from NDBC with the original time values. If there are multiple source rows for a given buoy for a given time, only the row with the most non-NaN data values is kept. If there is a gap in the data, a row of missing values is inserted (which causes a nice gap when the data is graphed). Also, some impossible data values are removed, but this data is not perfectly clean. This dataset is now updated every 5 minutes.

This dataset has both historical data (quality controlled, before 2023-12-01T00:00:00Z) and near real time data (less quality controlled, which may change at any time, from 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z on). cdm_data_type=TimeSeries cdm_timeseries_variables=station, longitude, latitude contributor_name=NOAA NDBC contributor_role=Source of data. Conventions=COARDS, CF-1.6, ACDD-1.3, NCCSV-1.2 Easternmost_Easting=179.001 featureType=TimeSeries geospatial_lat_max=71.758 geospatial_lat_min=-55.0 geospatial_lat_units=degrees_north geospatial_lon_max=179.001 geospatial_lon_min=-177.75 geospatial_lon_units=degrees_east geospatial_vertical_positive=down geospatial_vertical_units=m history=Around the 25th of each month, erd.data@noaa.gov downloads the latest yearly and monthly historical .txt.gz files from https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/data/historical/stdmet/ and generates one historical .nc file for each station. erd.data@noaa.gov also downloads all of the 45day near real time .txt files from https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/data/realtime2/ and generates one near real time .nc file for each station. Every 5 minutes, erd.data@noaa.gov downloads the list of latest data from all stations for the last 2 hours from https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/data/latest_obs/latest_obs.txt and updates the near real time .nc files. id=cwwcNDBCMet infoUrl=https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/ institution=NOAA NDBC, NOAA NMFS SWFSC ERD keywords_vocabulary=GCMD Science Keywords naming_authority=gov.noaa.pfeg.coastwatch Northernmost_Northing=71.758 project=NOAA NDBC and NOAA NMFS SWFSC ERD quality=Automated QC checks with periodic manual QC source=station observation sourceUrl=https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/ Southernmost_Northing=-55.0 standard_name_vocabulary=CF Standard Name Table v70 subsetVariables=station, longitude, latitude testOutOfDate=now-25minutes time_coverage_end=2025-06-14T21:00:00Z time_coverage_start=1970-02-26T20:00:00Z Westernmost_Easting=-177.75

This link provides information and additional metadata related to the National Geospatial Data Center/World Data Service (NGDC/WDS) Global Historical Tsunami Database (2100 BC to present). A direct tabular download of tsunami source events is available at: https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?type_0=Exact&query_0=$ID&t=101650&s=69&d=59&dfn=tsevent.txt.A direct tabular download of tsunami effects locations is available at: https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?type_0=Exact&query_0=$ID&t=101650&s=71&d=86&dfn=tsrunup.txt

Historical shoreline surveys were conducted by the National Ocean Service (NOS), dating back to the early 1800s. The maps resulting from these surveys, often called t-sheets, provide a reference of historical shoreline position that can be compared to modern data to identify shoreline change. The t-sheets are stored at the National Archives and many have been scanned by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and are available on the NOAA Shoreline Web site (http://www.shoreline.noaa.gov/data/datasheets/t-sheets.html). While some scanned t-sheets were georeferenced and digitized by NOAA, still others remain as non-georeferenced raster files (http://nosimagery.noaa.gov/images/shoreline_surveys/survey_scans/NOAA_Shoreline_Survey_Scans.html). New_Jersey_1839_75_Digitized_Shoreline.zip features a digitized historic shoreline for the New Jersey coastline from 1839 to 1875. The data were scanned by NOAA, but were not georeferenced. The t-sheets included in this data release are: T-121 (1839), T-119 Part 1 (1841), T-1084 (1868), T-1166 (1870), T-1333 (1871), T-1315a (1872), T-1371 (1874), T-1407 (1875). Digital files were georeferenced, corrected to a modern datum, and shorelines digitized to provide a vector polyline depicting the historical shoreline position. All shorelines, including the foreshore, backshore, mainland and island shorelines were delineated and digitized for each survey using ArcMap 10.3.1. These shorelines were digitized for use in long-term shoreline and wetland analyses for Hurricane Sandy wetland physical change assessment.

Monthly Summaries of Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN)-Daily is a dataset derived from GHCN-Daily. The data are produced by computing simple averages or monthly accumulations of the daily observations. The meteorological elements calculated for the data set include, but are not limited to: monthly maximum and minimum temperature, monthly precipitation (i.e., rainfall and snow water equivalent), snowfall and snow depth. Users of these monthly summaries have access to simple meteorological summaries for tens of thousands of stations worldwide.

These data were automated to provide an accurate high-resolution historical shoreline of Delaware River, PA suitable as a geographic information system (GIS) data layer. These data are derived from shoreline maps that were produced by the NOAA National Ocean Service including its predecessor agencies which were based on an office interpretation of imagery and/or field survey. The NGS attrib...

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 Finland, Scandanavia. The time period coverage is from 200 to 75 in calendar years before present (BP). See metadata information for parameter and study location details. Please cite this study when using the data.

Hydrographic sheets (H-sheets) and nautical charts produced by the National Ocean Service (NOS) during the 1800s provide historic sounding (water depth) measurements of coastal areas. The data can be vectorized into a geographic information system (GIS), adjusted to a modern vertical datum, and converted into a digital elevation model to provide an interpretation of the historic seafloor elevation. These data were produced to provide an estimate of historical bathymetry for the Mississippi-Alabama coastal region to aid geologic and coastal hazards studies. This data release includes georeferenced H-sheets, depth soundings, and a bathymetric grid derived from the 1847 and 1895 soundings. The original NOS H-sheets and nautical charts were scanned by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and are available through the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) website (NOAA, 2021) as non-georeferenced digital raster files. U.S. Geological Survey St. Petersburg Coasta ...

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.