How to Use the NOAA Marine — Tides, Currents & Coastal Data MCP in Windsurf
Get real-time NOAA marine data and long-term sea trends directly inside Windsurf to build coastal apps without manual API calls.
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Connect NOAA Marine — Tides, Currents & Coastal Data MCP to Windsurf
Create your Vinkius account to connect NOAA Marine — Tides, Currents & Coastal Data to Windsurf and route execution through our secure gateway. The platform manages server hosting, runtime updates, and security layers. Configuration requires no manual server provisioning.
Automate tidal predictions inside Windsurf
This MCP Server exposes `get_tide_predictions` to let Cascade pull high and low tide times without you writing boilerplate fetch code. Windsurf reads your local context, maps out the required NOAA station ID, and fetches the next 48 hours of tidal heights instantly. Since Cascade runs autonomously, it can take those predictions and immediately generate a clean UI component. You don't have to prompt for each step because the agent handles the API handshake, parses the JSON, and writes the component code in one go.
Real-time water levels and meteorological telemetry
The `get_water_levels` tool pulls actual water heights relative to station datums, while `get_meteorological` fetches wind speed, air temperature, and barometric pressure. Cascade chains these tools together to give you a complete snapshot of current coastal conditions. Instead of hopping between browser tabs to check NOAA CO-OPS stations, you let Windsurf query the live data. The agent can analyze sudden water level spikes alongside wind telemetry to flag potential storm surges during development.
Long-term sea level trends and current monitoring
Use `get_sea_level_trends` to retrieve multi-decade relative sea level rise data directly from NOAA coastal stations. Combine this with `get_currents` and `get_water_temperature` to feed physical oceanographic telemetry straight into your local models. This MCP Server allows Cascade to run deep environmental analyses without leaving your workspace. Your agent pulls historical trends, grabs real-time current velocity, and writes the Python scripts to plot the data.
Set up NOAA Marine — Tides, Currents & Coastal Data MCP in Windsurf
Prerequisites
- Windsurf IDE installed (macOS, Windows, or Linux)
- Active Vinkius subscription with a valid endpoint token
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Open MCP configuration
Click the Cascade assistant icon in the sidebar, then click the hammer icon (🔨) at the top of the panel. Select "Configure" to open
~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json. - 2
Add the NOAA Marine — Tides, Currents & Coastal Data MCP
Paste the JSON snippet shown on the right into the
mcpServersobject. Replace[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]with your endpoint token from cloud.vinkius.com. - 3
Refresh MCPs
Go back to the hammer icon (🔨) in Cascade and click "Refresh". Windsurf will detect the new server. No full restart is needed — the connection is hot-reloaded.
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Verify in Cascade
Start a new Cascade conversation and ask something like "Show my NOAA Marine — Tides, Currents & Coastal Data payment history." If connected, Cascade will call the NOAA Marine — Tides, Currents & Coastal Data tools directly. You will see a green dot next to the server name in the MCP panel.
{
"mcpServers": {
"noaa-marine-tides-currents-coastal-data-mcp": {
"url": "https://edge.vinkius.com/[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]/mcp"
}
}
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