Real-time data for monitoring orca habitat

From Orcapedia

These data sources are often useful for contextualizing sounds that are heard via the Salish Sea hydrophone network. Some are becoming embedded within a Google map of real-time sensors.

Contents 1 Web cams 2 Weather and wave measurements 3 Weather forecasts 4 Satellite imagery (latest) 5 Tidal currents 6 Tidal height 7 Vessel locations

Web cams

List from north to south, in San Juan Archipelago:

• Cams around SE Vancouver Island (from Big Wave Dave)
• Bellingham Bay (boat storage facility)
• Cams around the San Juan Islands (sponsored by Kenmore Air)
• Roche Harbor
• Snug Harbor
• Smuggler's Cove Cam (NW San Juan Island, updates 2 views every 5 minutes)
• OrcaCam (pan/tilt/zoom) at the Center for Whale Research (Not operational on 11/2/2010)
• Upper Hannah Heights (W San Juan Island)
• Friday Harbor: tower | ferry | ferry slip | Labs

Out west via Strait of Juan de Fuca:

• Race Rocks
• Dungeness Lighthouse
• Port Angeles harbor
• Mouth of Elwha River (from La Place sur le Mer)
• First Beach, La Push

Down into Puget Sound:

• Admiralty Head (on Fort Casey lighthouse, maintained by Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center)
• Port Townsend panning tower cam (radio tower on Lawrence Street)
• Port Townsend Marina (from Courthouse)
• West Point and area just to south (from Magnolia neighborhood in Seattle)

Other webcam lists and maps:

• Water Cams (from Hal at seattlesail.info)

Weather and wave measurements

• Neah Bay buoy
• Race Rocks station
• Hein Bank buoy | 5-day series of wind + pressure
• Kelp Reef - last 24hr wind
• Windfinder for B.C. (wind data and forecasts)
• Windfinder for WA (wind data and forecasts)
• Smith Island wind, temp, pressure
• WA State ferry wind and temperature
• San Juan wind and temp surface map
• Radial radar velocity
• Radar 1-hr precipitation
• Boater information system (Map-based interpolated wind, tides, currents, and temperature)
• Wind on the Water (Map-based and text-messaged wind data for wind sports]

Weather forecasts

• Regional marine forecast (U.S.)
• Regional 10-m modeled wind loop
• Haro Strait forecast (Canadian)

Satellite imagery (latest)

• Latest satellite with surface obs
• Infrared 4km (close) | 8km
• Water vapor enhanced

Tidal currents

• Salish Sea model (POM by IOS, Canada)
• Strait of Juan de Fuca
• Haro Strait
• Race Rocks current table

Tidal height

• Pedder Bay (Victoria, BC)

Vessel locations

• marinetraffic.com Live AIS data for the Salish Sea (and beyond; based in Greece!)
• siitech.com Live AIS data in the Pacific Northwest (includes handy ship "lookup" list)
• Port Townsend - Keystone ferry location map
• Seattle - Bainbridge ferry location map
• SailWX.net ship locations in PacNW
• Seattle area ship locations via AIS
• Shine Micro live AIS for the Salish Sea (requires registration; seems less informative and more lagged than marinetraffic.com)