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Station Metadata Response
Station Metadata Response
Example JSON response from the CO-OPS Metadata API for station 9414290 (San Francisco) with datums and sensors expanded.
NOAA Tides Currents Oceanographic Water Level Weather Predictions Government
Station Metadata Response is an example object payload from NOAA CO-OPS, with 3 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.
Top-level fields
description request_url stations
Example Payload
{
"description": "Example JSON response from the CO-OPS Metadata API for station 9414290 (San Francisco) with datums and sensors expanded.",
"request_url": "https://api.tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/mdapi/prod/webapi/stations/9414290.json?expand=datums,sensors&units=metric",
"stations": [
{
"id": "9414290",
"name": "San Francisco",
"lat": 37.8063,
"lng": -122.4659,
"affiliations": "NWLON",
"portscode": "sf",
"products": {
"product": [
{"name": "Water Levels"},
{"name": "Tide Predictions"},
{"name": "Wind"},
{"name": "Air Temperature"},
{"name": "Water Temperature"},
{"name": "Air Pressure"},
{"name": "Humidity"},
{"name": "Conductivity"},
{"name": "Visibility"}
]
},
"datums": [
{"name": "MHHW", "value": 1.744},
{"name": "MHW", "value": 1.628},
{"name": "MTL", "value": 0.939},
{"name": "MSL", "value": 0.908},
{"name": "MLW", "value": 0.249},
{"name": "MLLW", "value": 0.0},
{"name": "NAVD", "value": 0.745},
{"name": "STND", "value": -2.358}
],
"sensors": {
"sensor": [
{"name": "Water Level", "sensorID": "A1", "units": "m", "accuracy": 0.003},
{"name": "Wind Speed", "sensorID": "W1", "units": "m/s"},
{"name": "Air Temp", "sensorID": "T1", "units": "°C"}
]
},
"self": "https://api.tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/mdapi/prod/webapi/stations/9414290.json"
}
]
}
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