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NOAAAirport Operations

NDBC Buoy Data

Ocean buoy observations including wind, sea state and air temperature.

Agency

NOAA

Update cadence

Every 6 hours

Category

Airport Operations

What we ingest

Every observation in the NDBC latest-observations file — wind, sea state and air temperature per buoy — ingested whole, with no geographic filter. The file is the global NDBC and partner network, so it includes stations well outside US waters; selecting the buoys relevant to a given offshore operating area happens at read time, not at ingest.

Where this feed reaches

A region on this list means we fetch it. It is not a promise of station density: a listed region can still have sparse or no reporting sites near a given airport. Where a feed does not reach a region at all, this page says so instead of showing an empty panel.

  • Global — no regional boundary applies

How AeroCopilot uses it

Helicopter offshore-helideck check tool.

Powers these features

The product surfaces below depend on this feed.

Offshore helideck check

Cite this

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AeroCopilot — NDBC Buoy Data. Data: NOAA (https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/). https://www.aerocopilot.ai/data-sources/buoy-data.

Try the AI Copilot with this data

The Copilot has live access to NDBC Buoy Data during every conversation.