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IUGG XXIV General Assembly July 2-13, 2007 Perugia, Italy<br />

(S) - <strong>IASPEI</strong> - International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's<br />

Interior<br />

JSS002 Oral Presentation 1772<br />

Archive and Access of Global Water-Level Data: from the Coast to the<br />

Deep-ocean<br />

Mrs. Kelly Stroker<br />

NOAA NGDC <strong>IASPEI</strong><br />

Paula Dunbar<br />

NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) operates the World Data Center (WDC) for Solid<br />

Earth Geophysics (including tsunamis). NGDC is one of three environmental data centers within NOAAs<br />

Environmental Satellite Service. The WDC/NGDC provides the long-term archive, data management, and<br />

access to national and global tsunami data for research and mitigation of tsunami hazards. Archive<br />

responsibilities include the global historic tsunami event and run-up database, the bottom pressure<br />

recorder data, and access to event-specific tide-gauge data, as well as other related hazards and<br />

bathymetric data and information. Recently, NGDC has assumed the responsibility to archive the highresolution<br />

water level data. Currently, NGDC is archiving the pressure and temperature data recorded by<br />

NOAAs deep-ocean tsunameters. The next step would be to incorporate the water level data from<br />

coastal tide-gauge stations around the globe. There is a significant gap in data management for the<br />

coastal water level data in that no formal archive currently exists and it is quite a challenge to obtain<br />

water level information from various sources due to the lack of a central portal. It is envisioned that the<br />

retrospective water level data will be available through web services, using an XML-based schema.<br />

NGDC and the WDC are committed to distributing data in standard formats and the water level data<br />

would be no exception. Images of the station locations would be available through the Open Geospatial<br />

Consortium Web Map Services (WMS) and station metadata would be available through Web Feature<br />

Services (WFS). As part of the World Data Center, NGDC is committed to working with its international<br />

and national partners to develop a method for long-term sustainability of this important data.<br />

Keywords: tsunami, water level, tidegauge

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