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Background
This is a collection of some of the most important marine data catalogs and marine data website we've encountered during a decade of training and writing lessons and tutorials.
Marine Data Catalogs
The catalogs are self-evident, and should be easy to use. Most of them are based on surveys (and resulting metadata records) of datasets/dataservers throughout the web. Some of these are actually single sites that contain so many resources they require their own index.
- European Directory of Marine Environmental Data (EDMED) - describes more than 3100 data sets, from a wide range of disciplines, held at over 600 Data Holding Centres across Europe
- European Virtual Coastal and Marine Data Warehouse (CoastBase) - Currently offline [2008-09-31]
- FAO All Information Collections - Statistics, records, fact sheets, maps.
- GHRSST-PP Local Data Servers - Catalog of component system products in the Global High-Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) project
- Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) - The premier earth science data catalog in the world today, containing many ocean and atmosphere datasets
- GLOSS Station Handbook - Information on each of the tide gauges in 'Global Core Network' of 287 stations around the world for long term climate change and oceanographic sea level monitoring.
- ICES Cruise Summary Reports (CSR) - Includes a searchable database for all CSR/ROSCOPs, the senior metadata format in marine science; CSR/ROSCOPs describe data collections at the cruise level
- IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library - Over 300 datasets from a variety of earth science disciplines and climate-related topics
- NOAA Observing Systems Architecture (NOSA) - Overview of all US NOAA observing systems, with Open GIS, live access server [currently inoperable; 2008-11-06] and Google Earth access to station maps and satellite view schema
- NOAA Server - Search for environmental information on multiple NOAA computers; retrieve data from NOAA's electronic archives; view graphics; download or order data
- PANGAEA: Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data - Open Access library aimed at archiving, publishing and distributing georeferenced data from earth system research. The World Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (WDC-MARE) uses PANGAEA as its data archive and distribution system.
- PAGES Pale Data Access Page - Corals, Diatoms, Foraminifera, Lakes, Oceans, Ostracodes, Astronomy and Atmosphere, Climate, Modeling, Environmental Isotopes, Historical Data, Documentary Data/Archeology, Borehole Data, Dendrochronology, Fire, Geology/Geomorphology/Paleoenvironment, Insects, Paleobiology/Paleontology, River Runoff, Snow and Ice, Soils, Tephra
- UCAR/CISL Research Data Archive Dataset Lists - This page contains a list of several dataset lists to help you locate certain types of data.
- US National Snow and Ice Data Center Catalog - Offers hundreds of data products and services to researchers, commercial applications users, and others worldwide, most often at no cost
- US NCDC CD-ROM/DVD Climate Products - Weather and climate data. Approximately 40 titles, well described
- US NCDC Data Access Tools - Thematic gateway to global weather and climate datasets
- US NGDC Index to Bathymetry, Topography and Relief Data -NGDC catalog emphasizing relief products
- US NGDC Index to Marine Geology and Geophysics Data and Information - Key data types include trackline geophysics (gravity, magnetics, seismic reflection, bathymetry), sediment thickness, and data from ocean drilling and sea floor and lakebed sediment and rock.
- US NGDC Index to Data Product Types - Includes all online datasets, CD-ROMs, DVDs, web mapping services.
- US NODC Oceanographic Data - Archived original data, parameter-specific collections, processed data and project data, World Ocean Database/Atlas products, satellite products, special coastal projects
- US NODC CD-ROM and DVD Data Products - Oceanographic data. Approximately 30 landmark products, well described
- US National Virtual Ocean Data System (NVODS) - Live Access Server gateway to about 150 global datasets
- World Ocean Database and World Ocean Atlas Series - Includes some regional atlases, and special products based on specific data types
Selected Marine Data Websites
The listings of marine datasets in the six subsections of this article (see links, below) are an amalgamation of all the specific websites we have used to construct national marine data collections and regional marine atlases. They are mainly interfaces to single datasets or narrowly focused data collections. Very large sites with many resources are not listed here, but are included with the catalogs, above.
Subsections of this Article
| Pagename | Short title | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marine Atmosphere Data Websites | Marine Atmosphere Data Websites | Atmosphere Websites | none |
| Marine Base Map Data Websites | Marine Base Map Data Websites | Base Map Websites | none |
| Marine Biosphere Data Websites | Marine Biosphere Data Websites | Biosphere Websites | none |
| Marine Geosphere Data Websites | Marine Geosphere Data Websites | Geosphere Websites | none |
| Marine Hydrosphere Data Websites | Marine Hydrosphere Data Websites | Hydrosphere Websites | none |
| Marine Operational Data Websites | Marine Operational Data Websites | Operational Websites | none |
| Marine and Coastal Human Environment Data Websites | Marine and Coastal Human Environment Data Websites | Human Environment Websites | none |
Information about this article
Short title: Marine Data Gateway
Description: none
Expertise level: beginner
Author: Murray.Brown
Approval status: approved
Approved by: Murray.Brown
Last change: 2009-9-1
Subsection of: Data Websites and Catalogs
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