Rising Tides & Changing Waters: NOAA’s Plan to Update the NTDE

Description: Maintained by NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), the National Tidal Datum Epoch (NTDE) is the collection of water level observations over a 19-year period to generate a set of tidal datums. NTDE incorporates data from 2,000+ coastal water level stations. Updating this reference period will ensure the Nation’s tidal datums are based on recent data and provides a common reference frame to account for long-term effects of land movement, sea level rise and changes in tidal constituents. Accurate tidal datums are critical for federal, state, and private-sector coastal zone activities, including navigation, storm warning, and marine boundary determination. 

After 2026, CO-OPS will replace the existing 1983-2001 NTDE. The new 2002-2020 NTDE will include the CO-OPS repository of permanent real-time and historic stations with available data. New datum automation procedures will generate new NTDE products more efficiently to deliver the update on schedule. 

Katie Fitzenreiter is an Oceanographer at NOAA's National Ocean Service within the Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS). Her work primarily focuses on the computation, analysis, and maintenance of tidal & geodetic datums, and related products.

Alexis Sluder is a Communications and Outreach Specialist under contract to NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), supporting the National Tidal Datum Epoch and the International Great Lakes Datum. 

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