NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARINE TEXT PRODUCTS
             COASTAL FORECASTS by ZONE for ALASKA 
            

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synopsis are available as part of the complete Coastal Waters Forecast 
for those zones.  See the FTPMAIL "help" file for information on downloading 
directory file marine3.txt 

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These instructions are subject to revision....download frequently.
 
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This file is intended to assist mariners using the FTPMAIL system
which is used to obtain National Weather Service products via 
e-mail.  The following is an example in the use of the FTPMAIL
system. NOTE CAPITALIZATION!

 

Send an e-mail to:      ftpmail@ftpmail.nws.noaa.gov
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Body:                   open
                        cd data
                        cd forecasts
                        cd marine
                        cd coastal
                        cd pk
                        get pkz098.txt
                        get pkz036.txt
                        get pkz099.txt
                        get pkz052.txt
                        quit
 
COASTAL FORECASTS by ZONE for ALASKA

Please note that many zones will contain identical forecast information at times. 


These files may be found in directory:
ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/forecasts/marine/coastal/pk


PKZ098 Synopsis for Southeast Alaska Inner Channels Coastal Waters
   PKZ011 Glacier Bay
   PKZ012 Northern Lynn Canal
   PKZ013 Southern Lynn Canal
   PKZ021 Icy Strait
   PKZ022 Cross Sound
   PKZ031 Stephens Passage
   PKZ032 Northern Chatham Strait
   PKZ033 Southern Chatham Strait
   PKZ034 Frederick Sound
   PKZ035 Sumner Strait
   PKZ036 Clarence Strait
PKZ099 Synopsis for Outside Waters
   PKZ041 Dixon Entrance to Cape Decision
   PKZ042 Cape Decision to Cape Edgecumbe
   PKZ043 Cape Edgecumbe to Cape Fairweather
   PKZ051 Cape Fairweather to Icy Cape
   PKZ052 Icy Cape to Cape Suckling
   PKZ053 Yakutat Bay
PKZ197 Synopsis for the North Gulf Coast…Kodiak Island Waters…and Cook Inlet
   PKZ120 Cape Suckling to Gore Point
   PKZ121 Resurrection Bay
   PKZ125 Prince William Sound
   PKZ129 Passage Canal
   PKZ130 Barren Islands and Kamishak Bay Waters
   PKZ132 Shuyak Island to Sitkinak
   PKZ138 Shelikof Strait
   PKZ140 Cook Inlet North of Kamishak and English Bay
   PKZ141 Kachemak Bay
PKZ199 Synopsis for Southwest Alaska…Bristol Bay…the Alaska Peninsula Waters…and the
Aleutian Islands
   PKZ150 Sitkinak to Castle Cape
   PKZ155 Castle Cape to Cape Sarichef
   PKZ160 Cape Newenham to Port Heiden
   PKZ165 Port Heiden to Cape Sarichef
   PKZ180 Cape Newenham to Dall Point
   PKZ170 Cape Sarichef to Nikolski
   PKZ171 Unalaska Bay
   PKZ172 Nikolski to Adak
   PKZ175 Adak to Kiska
   PKZ176 Kiska to Attu
   PKZ179 Pribilof Islands Nearshore Waters (out 5 NM only)
   PKZ185 St. Matthew Island Waters
   PKZ136 Chiniak Bay
   PKZ137 Marmot Bay
   PKZ126 Port Valdez
   PKZ127 Valdez Narrows
   PKZ128 Valdez Arm
PKZ298 Synopsis for Arctic Coast
   PKZ225 Cape Thompson to Cape Beaufort
   PKZ230 Cape Beaufort to Point Franklin
   PKZ235 Point Franklin to Cape Halkett
   PKZ240 Cape Halkett to Flaxman Island
   PKZ245 Flaxman Island to Demarcation Point
PKZ299 Synopsis for Northwest Coast
   PKZ200 Norton Sound
   PKZ210 Dall Point to Wales
   PKZ215 Kotzebue Sound
   PKZ220 Wales to Cape Thompson

If you have access to the World Wide Web be certain to check out
the following webpages.  See these pages for further links.

http://www.nws.noaa.gov                      NWS Homepage
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/home.htm   NWS Marine Page
cell.weather.gov                             Cellphone page
mobile.weather.gov                           Mobile Page


Author: Marine and Coastal Weather Services Branch, W/OS21 
        National Weather Service
        Last Modified May 28, 2010
        Document URL: http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/fax/marine9.txt
                      ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/fax/marine9.txt