Coastal Engineering Software and Data & Software Sources

• Center for Applied Coastal Research
• SWAN

Java Applets

• Coastal Engineering Applets (Dalrymple's Applet Page)

Matlab Codes

• MACE (Matlab Functions for Coastal Engineers, by Nobuhito Mori
• DIWASP, Directional Wave Spectra Toolbox
• WAFO (Wave Analysis for Fatigue and Oceanography
• SEA-MAT, Matlab Tools for Oceanographic Analysis

Data Display

• FERRET, Data Visualization and Analysis

Shoreline Change

• Digital Shoreline Analysis System, DSAS (ArcView)

Tides

• Xtide, the harmonic tide predictor for X windows
• IOS Tidal Package, prediction and analysis packages for tides and currents (Fortran)
• T_Tide, a Matlab version of the IOS Tidal Package
• U. Hawaii Sea Level Center PC software for tidal analysis
• TOPEX/Poseidon Satellite Tidal Models

Waves

• Stream Function Wave Theory (stream.f: for nonlinear periodic waves over constant depth. nlinear.f: for waves on complex current profiles.)
• WaveWatch III (spectral surface waves)

Marine Hydrodynamics

• Virtual Arsenal of the Marine Engineer

Sharp Zaurus software

• Stream Function
• Refdif1

Other Coastal/Ocean Web Pages

• Coastal-Guide
• Coastal Guide, Europe
• MareNet
• Australia's National Committee on Coastal and Ocean Engineering

Tides

• WWW Tide/Current Predictor
• Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services, National Ocean Survey
• Tides Online
• Historical NOAA data
• Canadian Tides, from the Canadian Hydrographic Service

Waves

• U.S. Army Coastal Engineering Data Retrieval System (CEDRS)
• U.S. Army Field Gaging Program
• U.S. Army Prototype Measurement and Analysis Branch, CHL
• NOAA National Data Buoy Center
• Coastal Data Information Program, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• U.S. Navy Fleet Numerical's Wave Model (WAM)
• Queensland, Australia's EPA
• Spain: Puertos del Estado
• Italian Hydrographic and Marine Service
• ARGOSS, NL

Bathymetry

• NOS Mapfinder
• CHL CEDRS (for U.S.)
• NOAA Shoreline Data Site
• NOAA National Geophysical Data Center
• NOS Hydrographic Survey Data
• Coastal Relief Model
• Global Relief Data
• Maptech for nautical charts

Bottom Sediments

• Sea Bed Data

Shorelines

• California Coastal Records Project
• NOAA Shoreline Data (US only)

Aerial Photography

• USGS National Aerial Photography Program
• USGS Photofinder ($)
• Terraserver

Beach Water Temperature

• NODC Coastal Water Temperature Guide

Weather

• Hurricanes, National Hurricane Center, including historical storm tracks and reports.
• Saffir-Simpson Scale (background)
• Tropical Cyclone Best Track Data Site

Coastal Video Images

• Coastal Imaging Lab, Oregon State University, with a number of sites in the U.S. and the Netherlands, also with archived photos.
• Water Research Laboratory, U.N.S.W., Australia, northern Gold Coast hourly images.

Oceanography

• British Oceanographic Data Center
• (U.S.) National Oceanographic Data Center
• Australian Oceanographic Data Centre
• IAPSO, International Assoc. for the Physical Sciences of the Ocean