Accessing NOAA tide data with R (updated 2021)
Tags: CO-OPS, ERDDAP, NOAA, R-project, tide height
It’s been a decade since I wrote a script to retrieve observed tide height data from NOAA’s CO-OPS server, which lets you grab up to a month of tide data for a given tide station at a time. In that time, they’ve migrated over to a new server and slightly different API, so it’s probably time to update the script.
The updated version of this script is available in my miscellaneous public R Github as “coops_tide_ht_retrieval_monthly_v3.R”. The current version is copied below. To use it, you’ll need to install the … Continue Reading