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Real Time Physical Oceanographic Information

The Physical Oceanographic Real Time System (PORTS) is designed to provide crucial information in real time to mariners, oil spill response teams, managers of coastal resources, and others about San Francisco Bay's water levels, currents, salinity, and winds.

 

Rapid Earthquake Location Service

What's shaking? When you feel the ground move, or think you do, confirmation is a click away. A new rapid earthquake location service by USGS and UC Berkeley separates the quakes from the large trucks and produces a very preliminary magnitude and location of significant quakes in northern California. Preliminary data will be updated as more information becomes available and seismologists on call are able to interpret the readings. Links from here lead to lots of other new earthquake information provided by USGS.

 

Near Real-Time Wind Patterns for San Francisco Bay

Sailing? Sailboarding? How are the winds blowing? Find out using this new service provided by a collaboration among USGS, San Jose State University, SRI International, and the National Weather Service. Hourly wind observations are relayed to USGS where a current wind pattern map is calculated using a computer model. Results are used by USGS and other scientists studying bay currents.

 

Current Streamflow

Data from realtime streamflow gages are relayed to the USGS office in Sacramento through the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) data-collection system. Data are transmitted from each station at intervals of either 3 or 4 hours.

 

USGS Booth 2000

FOR Rivers Festival
February 19-20, 2000

Rex Sanders and Laura Torresan set up a USGS booth for the third year in a row at the annual Rivers Festival at Fort Mason in San Francisco. Take a little tour of the booth!

 

USGS Booth at the 1999 FOR Rivers Festival

Rex and Laura take USGS Web sites on the road again!

The Access USGS--San Francisco Bay and Delta Web site was one of the featured Web sites at the USGS booth at the Friends of the River (FOR) Rivers Festival: San Francisco, February 20+21, 1999.

 

Rex and Laura Take the USGS Web Sites on the Road... (1998)

...to the Rivers Festival, put on by Friends of the River (FOR) at Fort Mason on Saturday and Sunday, February 21 and 22, 1998.

 

Below are some other real-time web sites around San Francisco Bay

Note-- These sites all originate outside of USGS so we cannot be responsible for their content.

WWW Tides and Current Predictor

Use this experimental tide and current predictor from the University of South Carolina to estimate tides at two dozen sites around San Francisco and Monterey Bays. Lots of neat options.

 

Current Tides and Weather at Benicia-Martinez Bridge

A NOAA/National Ocean Service team, as part of its partnership project with San Francisco State University, has installed a set of sensors in Suisun Bay. Although the system is still in the testing phase, data are presently being collected from a station at Benicia-Martinez Bridge every 6 minutes and transmitted to a central computer located at the California Maritime Academy (CMA) in Vallejo.

 

Latest West Coast Weather Movie Loop

Courtesy of UC Davis Atmospheric Science. Catch it here before watching it on TV tonight.

 

Live Traffic Cameras

KPIX Television keeps its eye on traffic and weather with a series of cameras.

 

URL: http://sfbay.wr.usgs.gov/access/realtime.html

Page maintainer: Laura Zink Torresan; Last modified: 11 April 2002
For more information, please contact the Access USGS --San Francisco Bay and Delta Web Team

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