NOAA CO-OPS · Example Payload

Station Metadata Response

Example JSON response from the CO-OPS Metadata API for station 9414290 (San Francisco) with datums and sensors expanded.

NOAATidesCurrentsOceanographicWater LevelWeatherPredictionsGovernment

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

descriptionrequest_urlstations

Example Payload

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{
  "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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