Texas General Land Office
 Texas General Land Office
 Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D.

 Oil Spill Prevention
 & Response

Texas Automated Buoy System
Real Time Ocean Observations
Supporting Oil Spill Prevention and
Response since 1995
Geochemical and Environmental Research Group

TABS Data Products
TABS Home
Current Summary
Buoy Status
Latest TXLA Model Forecast
Beryl Model Current Forecast
TABS Model THREDDS Server
NOAA Wave Model
Vector Addition Trajectory Tool

NOAA GNOME Oil Spill
Data Products

TWBD Texas Bays and Estuaries
GNOME Files

NOAA GNOME Download

Weather
Hurricane Tracks
Marine Forecasts
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TABS Information
IMPORTANT: Notice to Mariners

Articles & Publications
Development of TABS paper(pdf)
Ten Years of TABS paper(pdf)
Oceans 2001 TABS paper(pdf)
Oceans 2009 TABS paper(pdf)
Oceans 2011 TABS paper(pdf)


Links
GCOOS (Member)
TGLO Oilspill Division
NDBC   West Gulf
TWBD Tide Forecasts
National Hurricane Center
Houston/Galveston PORTS
Texas Parks Harmful Algal Blooms
AVHRR Images (Johns Hopkins)
CO-OPS (formerly TCOON)
WAVCIS (LSU)

In the map below, Hover over each of the TABS buoys to access their half-hourly data for the last 5 days or to perform database searches.
The vectors on the map point toward the direction that the currents or winds are flowing.


Last Data Reported
B 2024-10-13 05:30Z (10-13 00:30 CDT)
D 2024-09-22 15:00Z (09-22 10:00 CDT)
F 2024-10-13 03:00Z (10-12 22:00 CDT)
J 2024-09-25 05:30Z (09-25 00:30 CDT)
R 2024-09-23 21:30Z (09-23 16:30 CDT)
W 2024-10-06 06:30Z (10-06 01:30 CDT)
 
 
 


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