GLOS Seagull (Great Lakes Observing System)
Great Lakes Observing System's Seagull platform aggregates near-real-time and archived buoy and sensor observations across all five Great Lakes: water and air temperature, waves, currents, dissolved oxygen, conductivity, pH, chlorophyll, and other water-quality and weather parameters, plus model forecasts.
seagull.glos.org
At a glance
- Region
- United States (North America)
- Coverage
- Regional (Great Lakes, US/Canada binational)
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Research
What's inside
- Water Quality
- Water Temperature
- Waves
- Currents
- Meteorology
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Hotspots and trends
Find where contamination is high and whether it is getting worse.
Because it has: Water Quality
- 02
Compliance checks
Compare samples against drinking water and discharge standards.
- 03
Risk screening
Screen projects and assets for climate risk.
Because it has: Water Temperature
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Risk maps
Predict contamination where no samples exist, from geology, land use and climate.
- 02
Anomaly alerts
Catch sudden spikes in sensor or lab data automatically.
- 03
Bias correction
Correct and downscale climate model output for a site.
Machine access and documentation
Open API
Machine-readable endpoint on seagull-api.glos.org
Licence: Open data
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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