# NDBC THREDDS/OPeNDAP NetCDF Service

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/ndbc/thredds-netcdf-service/  
**Provider:** NDBC — National Data Buoy Center — https://apis.io/providers/ndbc/  
**Base URL:** https://dods.ndbc.noaa.gov  
**Documentation:** https://dods.ndbc.noaa.gov/

NDBC THREDDS/OPeNDAP NetCDF Service is one of 5 APIs that [NDBC — National Data Buoy Center](https://apis.io/providers/ndbc/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include NetCDF, THREDDS, OPeNDAP, Scientific Data, and Currents. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Exposes NDBC station time-series data as NetCDF files through a THREDDS Data Server (TDS) at https://dods.ndbc.noaa.gov/ using the OPeNDAP protocol. Dataset categories include standard meteorology (stdmet), continuous winds (cwind), spectral wave density (swden), acoustic Doppler current profiler (adcp, adcp2), oceanographic (ocean), water level (wlevel), DART tsunami (dart), and peak/mean currents (pwind, mmbcur). Files follow the naming pattern SSSSStYYYY.nc; real-time files use year 9999. An OceanSITES-format TAO buoy collection and HF Radar surface currents are also available via the same server.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://dods.ndbc.noaa.gov/
- **BaseURL** — https://dods.ndbc.noaa.gov/
- **Documentation** — https://dods.ndbc.noaa.gov/oceansites/

## Other NDBC — National Data Buoy Center APIs (4)

- [NDBC Real-Time Data Service](https://apis.io/apis/ndbc/realtime-data-service/)
- [NDBC Latest Observations Service](https://apis.io/apis/ndbc/latest-observations-service/)
- [NDBC Historical Archive Service](https://apis.io/apis/ndbc/historical-archive-service/)
- [NDBC HF Radar Surface Currents Service](https://apis.io/apis/ndbc/hf-radar-service/)

## Tags

NetCDF, THREDDS, OPeNDAP, Scientific Data, Currents, Tsunami, OceanSITES

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