As part of CGIA's mission to inform the California geospatial community about key changes in the profession, we are highlighting the upcoming removal of several datasets and related items which are managed by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA has announced that several of its data layers and related items will be decommissioned in the coming weeks. These datasets include:
- NOAA Marine Environmental Buoy Database
- Global Ocean Currents Database (GOCD)
- OceanNOMADS
- WSA-Enlil, NCEI Archival copy
- Estuarine Bathymetry
- Total Sediment Thickness for the World's Oceans and Marginal Seas
- Geological History of the World's Oceanic Crust
- Circum-Antarctic Paleobathymetry to 30° South: Present to 75my
- Satellite Products and Services Review Board (SPSRB)
- Index to Marine and Lacustrine Geological Samples (IMLGS)
- Thermal (geothermal) Hot Springs List for the United States
- Seismicity Catalog for Collection
- Strong Motion Earthquake Data Values of Digitized Strong-Motion Accelerograms
- United States Earthquake Intensity Database
- Coastline Extractor
- Shoreline/Coastline Resources
- National Centers of Environmental Information (NCEI) Coastal Ecosystem Maps
- NCEI Coastal Water Temperature Guide
NOAA announced the decommissioning on Monday, with listed datasets due to be removed throughout May. American Geophysical Union's Eos publication contains detailed information about the removal and decommissioning of data.
Please forward this information to colleagues in your network who may be impacted by these changes.