Coastal marine forecasts and Special Marine Warnings are issued by zone, each zone identified by a text description and a Universal Generic Code (UGC). These forecasts are prepared by the individual Weather Forecast Office responsible for the zone.
Purpose:
To deliniate the coastal marine zones for the use in creating coastal marine forecasts and warnings.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 19990707
Currentness_Reference: Current
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -131.113484
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -66.101810
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 48.517737
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 28.990596
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword: Boundaries
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Place_Keyword: Conus
Access_Constraints: None
Use_Constraints: None
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Ira Graffman
Contact_Organization: National Weather Service/OSt
Source_Contribution: County Boundaries used for coastline.
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Buffers of extent of the zones were created from the county dataset to follow the coast line. Marine break points were used to divide the buffer in to the required zones.
Process_Date: 2002
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Ira Graffman
Contact_Organization: National Weather Service/OST
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