Agency
NOAA
Refresh cadence
every 6 hr
Last successful sync
Pending first sync
Pipelines
buoy_sync
Category
Airport Operations
About this dataset
Ocean buoy observations including wind, sea state and air temperature. 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. Helicopter offshore-helideck check tool.
Where this feed reaches
- Global — no regional boundary applies
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 you'll see it in AeroCopilot
Upstream publisher
www.ndbc.noaa.gov/AeroCopilot is the canonical pipeline for this dataset inside the product. The link above goes to the upstream publisher for full documentation and data licensing.