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Global and Regional Data Sources

Having free and unrestricted access to oceanographic data is what IODE is all about.

On this page you will find links to main ocean data sources developed and maintained by IODE National Oceanographic Data Centres. This list was started on 20 November 2009 and will be gradually expanded.

  1. GLOBAL DATA SOURCES
  2. REGIONAL DATA SOURCES

 

Last update: 26 September 2017

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GLOBAL DATA SOURCES

 
Argo floats  The broad-scale global array of temperature/salinity profiling floats, known as Argo, has already grown to be a major component of the ocean observing system. Argo is a standard to which other developing ocean observing systems can look to. For example, Argo offers ideas on various topics such as how to collaborate internationally, how to develop a data management system and how to change the way scientists think about collecting data. Deployments began in 2000 and continue today at the rate of about 800 per year.

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BCO-DMO (Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office) BCO-DMO, located at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, is a combination of the formerly independent Data Management Offices formed in support of the US JGOFS and US GLOBEC programs. The BCO-DMO staff members are the curators of the data collections created by those respective programs, as well as data from more recent NSF Geosciences Directorate (GEO) Division of Ocean Sciences (OCE) Biological and Chemical Oceanography Sections, Division of Polar Programs (PLR) Antarctic Sciences (ANT) Organisms & Ecosystems, and Arctic Sciences (ARC) awards. BCO-DMO hosts databases from more than 30 programmes and over 600 projects. Programmes include AON, ASCOS, BASIN, C-DEBI, CAMEO, Coastal SEES, COML, Dimensions of Biodiversity, ETBC, FeSynth, GeoMICS, GoMX-DHOS, IMBER-US, Indo-Pac RCN, INoPEx, IODP, CLIVAR, GLOBEC, JGOFS, SOLAS,... LINK
Buoy data DBCP (Data Buoy Cooperation Panel)

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(National Data) Buoy Center National Data Buoy Center (NDBC), a part of the National Weather Service (NWS). NDBC designs, develops, operates, and maintains a network of data collecting buoys and coastal stations. NDBC's virtual tour will give you an overview of what NDBC does, the facilities, the atmospheric and oceanographic variables measured, and the use of these data.

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(Ocean) CO2

Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center

 

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Coriolis

Coriolis data service provides quality-controlled in-situ data in real-time and delayed modes. Managed data sets are mainly T-S profiles and time series from profiling floats, XBT's, thermo-salinographs, drifting and moored buoys. Coriolis is progressively integrated other parameters such as sea level from European real-time tide gages, and ecosystem data (oxygen, chlorophyll and nutrients) from ferrybox , mooring and gliders.

Comments: CORIOLIS Data Centre is the Global Data Assembly Center (GDAC) for ARGO, OceanSITES and GOSUD project networks.

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Cruise summary reports (CSR, ROSCOP) ROSCOP (Report of Observations/Samples collected by Oceanographic Programmes) was conceived by IOC (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission) in the late 1960s in order to provide a low level inventory for tracking oceanographic data collected at sea.The CSR is used for reporting on measurements and samples collected at sea to provide metadata for scientists, data managers and programme managers to find information on who has collected what, when and where. LINK
(Gridded) Bathymetry data sets GEBCO’s gridded bathymetric data sets are global terrain models for ocean and land. They are maintained and distributed by BODC on behalf of  GEBCO. LINK
CTD and underway (AMT)  The Conductivity, Temperature, Depth (CTD) profiles, and continuous meteorological and oceanographic core measurements (underway data) from all cruises for the Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) programme are available online in a fixed ASCII (CSV) format (provided by UK BODC) LINK
CTD profiles Access to all CTD data held in UK BODC National Oceanographic Database LINK
CTD and hydrographic data

CTD and hydrographic data - National Science Foundation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Observations Division.
Highest possible quality global CTD and hydrographic data to users. These data are a product of decades of observations related to the physical characteristics of ocean waters carried out during WOCE, CLIVAR and numerous other oceanographic research programs.

Comments: Includes data from different observation programmes – SOCCOM USHYDRO WOCE DIMES ELLETT Project Carina

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Currents data Access to all instrumentally recorded currents data held in UK BODC National Oceanographic Database.  LINK
Everyone's Gliding Observatories This site is dedicated to the promotion of the glider technology and its applications. The EGO group promotes glider applications through coordination, training, liaison between providers and users, advocacy, and provision of expert advice. LINK
Gridded Climate Datasets

Climate datasets; temperature, SST, Precipitation, Radiation, Arctic, Reanalysis, Climate indices

(NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory)

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Global Ocean Surface Underway Data (GOSUD) Project The Global Ocean Surface Underway Data (GOSUD) Project is an Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) programme designed as an end to end system for data collected by ships as they traverse their ocean tracks. The goal of the GOSUD Project is to develop and implement the data system for ocean surface data, to acquire and manage these data and to provide a mechanism to integrate these data with other types of data collected in the world oceans. For the purposes of this Project, the data concerned are those collected as a platform is underway from the ocean surface down to the mixed layer base.

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Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Program (GTSPP) The Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Program (GTSPP) is a cooperative international project that seeks to develop and maintain a global ocean Temperature-Salinity resource with up-to-date and high quality data. LINK
GLODAPv2 A uniformly calibrated open ocean data product on inorganic carbon and carbon-relevant variables

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GOA-ON Collaborative international approach to document the status and progress of ocean acidification in open-ocean, coastal, and estuarine environments, to understand the drivers and impacts of ocean acidification on marine ecosystems, and to provide spatially and temporally resolved biogeochemical data necessary to optimize modelling for ocean acidification.

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GRDC The world-wide repository of river discharge data and associated metadata operating under the auspices of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). LINK
Hadley Centre Observation Datasets Observed subsurface ocean temperature and salinity profiles with data quality information, and, objective analyses formed from the profile data with uncertainty estimates. Data are available from 1900 to the present.

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Harmful Algae Information System (HAIS)  The Harmful Algal Information System, HAIS, provides access to information on harmful algal events, harmful algae monitoring and management systems worldwide, current use of taxonomic names of harmful algae, and information on biogeography of harmful algal species. Supplementary components are an expert directory and a bibliography. LINK
HydroBase3 HydroBase3 is a tool for climatological analysis of oceanographic properties. The package is comprised of software and database products that together provide a flexible means of constructing and analyzing datasets customized to investigators' research needs. A graphical user interface has been built to enable running HydroBase3 within a Matlab environment. LINK
ICOADS Available global surface marine data from the late 17th century to date assembled, quality controlled, and made widely available to the international research community in products of the Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (COADS). A new name, International COADS (ICOADS), was agreed in 2002.

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LTER US-based network of long-term ecological research sites LINK
MANIDA (Marine Networ for Integrated Data Access)

The data portal brings together data from different German Marine Research Institutes in an automated way (machine readable). A huge amount of marine data sets is commonly made searchable with direct access and without any registration procedure. Metadata and data from these partner institutes: AWI, BSH, GEOMAR, HZG and MARUM.

Comments: portal linking to other global providers (e.g. links to PANGEA)

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Marine regions (global) Marine Regions is a standard list of marine georeferenced place names and areas. It integrates and serves geographic information from the VLIMAR Gazetteer and the MARBOUND database and proposes a standard of marine georeferenced locations, boundaries and regions LINK
Mid-Atlantic Ocean Data Portal (MARCO) The Mid-Atlantic Ocean Data Portal is an online toolkit and resource center that consolidates available data and enables state, federal and local users to visualize and analyze ocean resources and human use information such as fishing grounds, recreational areas, shipping lanes, habitat areas, and energy sites, among others. LINK
MODIS

The MODIS instrument is operating on both the Terra and Aqua spacecraft.  It has a viewing swath width of 2,330 km and views the entire surface of the Earth every one to two days. Its detectors measure 36 spectral bands between 0.405 and 14.385 µm, and it acquires data at three spatial resolutions -- 250m, 500m, and 1,000m.

Along with all the data from other instruments on board the Terra spacecraft and Aqua Spacecraft, MODIS data are transferred to ground stations in White Sands, New Mexico, via the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS). The data are then sent to the EOS Data and Operations System (EDOS) at the Goddard Space Flight Center. The Level 1A, Level 1B, geolocation and cloud mask products and the Higher-level MODIS land and atmosphere products are produced by the MODIS Adaptive Processing System (MODAPS), and then are parceled out among three DAACs for distribution. Ocean color products are produced by the Ocean Color Data Processing System (OCDPS) and distributed to the science and applications community.

The many data products derived from MODIS observations describe features of the land, oceans and the atmosphere that can be used for studies of processes and trends on local to global scales.   As just noted, MODIS products are available from several sources.  MODIS Level 1 and atmosphere products are available through the LAADS web.  Land Products are available through the Land Processes DAAC at the U. S. Geological Survey EROS Data Center (EDC).  Cryosphere data products (snow and sea ice cover) are available from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado.  Ocean color products and sea surface temperature products along with information about these products are obtainable at the OCDPS at GSFC.  Users with an appropriate x-band receiving system may capture regional data directly from the spacecraft using the MODIS Direct Broadcast signal. 

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NCAR/RDA (NCAR research data archive) RDA, managed by the Data Support Section of the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory at NCAR, contains a large and diverse collection of meteorological and oceanographic observations, operational and reanalysis model outputs, and remote sensing datasets to support atmospheric and geosciences research.

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NDBC (NOAA) NDBC designs, develops, operates, and maintains a network of data collecting buoys and coastal stations

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NOAA geoportal server The NOAA Geoportal Server is used as an integrating technology, bringing together various data access, visualization, discovery services, and metadata into a user-focused framework.

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(allows browsing by people, platform, project, institution, sea name, data type, instrument type, observation type) 

NOAA NCEI (National Centers for Environmental Information)

NODC has implemented numerous interoperable data technologies to enhance the discovery, understanding, and use of the vast quantities of oceanographic data in the NODC archives. Combined, these technologies enable NODC to provide access to its data holdings and products through some of the commonly-used standardized Web services.

Comments: Contains links to data from many programs - WOD, GOSUD, IOOS, ARGO, etc...

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NASA Bio-optical marine algorithm dataset (NOMAD) Global, high quality in situ bio-optical data sets. Data products include coincident observations of water-leaving radiances and chlorophyll-a concentrations, along with relevant metadata, such as the date, time, and coordinates of data collection and binary processing flags.

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Numerical Model Data This portal provides access to all numerical model datasets held by BODC. Model data originating from a variety of projects and organisations are stored in our systems and are available for online retrieval. All model data are stored as CF compliant netCDF format files. LINK
Observing System Monitoring Center operating status of various operational observing networks (IOC, JCOMM, NOAA) LINK
Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) - global (IODE) OBIS provides a portal or gateway to many datasets containing information on where and when marine species have been recorded. The datasets are integrated so you can search them all seamlessly by species name, higher taxonomic level, geographic area, depth, and time; and then map and find environmental data related to the locations

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OCADS (former CDIAC) The newly founded NCEI Ocean Carbon Data System (OCADS) is responsible for hosting and providing access for ocean carbon data as previously done by the Ocean component of the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC-Oceans) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

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Ocean Data Catalog (data.gov) The home of the U.S. Government’s open data. Most data in this site are limited to US but some are global. LINK
(Australian) Ocean Data Network Portal

This portal is the primary access point for search, discovery, access and download of data collected by the Australian marine community. Primary datasets are contributed by the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) an Australian Government Research Infrastructure project, and the six Commonwealth Agencies with responsibilities in the Australian marine jurisdiction (Australian Antarctic Division, Australian Institute for Marine Science, Bureau of Meteorology, Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, Geoscience Australia and the Royal Australian Navy). You can obtain full information about the AODN via the AODN Webpage.

 

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(IODE) Ocean Data Portal (global) The Ocean Data Portal (further, ODP) aims at providing seamless access to collections and inventories of marine data from the NODCs (National Oceanographic Data Centres) of the IODE network and allows for the discovery, evaluation (through visualization and metadata review) and access to data via web services. The system architecture use Web-oriented information technologies to access non-homogeneous and geographically distributed marine data and information.  LINK
(UNEP) Ocean Data Viewer

The Ocean Data Viewer offers users the opportunity to view and download a range of spatial datasets that are useful for informing decisions regarding the conservation of marine and coastal biodiversity. These decisions ultimately affect the ocean's health and productivity, which provide the ecosystem services that are necessary for our well-being, livelihoods, and survival. To date, the users of this tool have included government agencies, scientists, researchers, the corporate sector, and non-governmental organisations. These data come from internationally respected scientific institutions and other organisations that have agreed to make their data available to the global community, with the hope that these data will support and encourage informed decision-making that sustains global biodiversity and ecosystem services.

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OceanSITES OceanSITES is a worldwide system of long-term, deepwater reference stations measuring dozens of variables and monitoring the full depth of the ocean, from air-sea interactions down to 5,000 meters.

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OOI OOI deploys sensors in arrays of moorings, mobile assets, and cabled sensors to measure oceanographic variables.

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PANGAEA Data Publisher for Earth and Environmental Science. The information system PANGAEA is operated as an Open Access library aimed at archiving, publishing and distributing georeferenced data from earth system research. The system guarantees long-term availability of its content through a commitment of the operating institutions. LINK
PSMSL PSMSL has been responsible for the collection, publication, analysis and interpretation of sea level data from the global network of tide gauges. It is based in Liverpool at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), which is a component of the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)

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Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) Data Repository R2R provides a gateway through which data are routinely cataloged and deposited in long-term archives, including the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) (for data) and Chronopolis
(for documents). Data are submitted to R2R by vessel operators rather than by individual science parties
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SAHFOS-CPR (Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science, Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey) Portal that provides the scientific and policy communities with a basin- wide and long-term measure of the ecological health of marine plankton. LINK
Shipboard Automated Meteorological and Oceanographic System (SAMOS) The shipboard automated meteorological and oceanographic system (SAMOS) initiative aims to improve the quality of meteorological and near-surface oceanographic observations collected in-situ on research vessels (R/Vs) and select volunteer observing ships (VOS). LINK
Sea Level

 The international sea level data available are a combination of data collected under the the Global Sea Level Observing System (GLOSS), the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) and the Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) programmes.

data available by region (N Atlanrix, S. Atlantic, Indian Ocean, N. Pacific, S Pacific) and for Bottom pressure recorders.

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Sea Level Facility - IOC Web-site focused on operational monitoring of sea level for real time sea level stations that are part of IOC programs i.e. (i) the Global Sea Level Observing System Core Network; and (ii) the networks under the regional tsunami warning systems in the Indian Ocean (IOTWS), North East Atlantic & Mediterranean (NEAMTWS), Pacific (PTWS) and the Caribbean (CARIBE- EWS). The service has been developed and is maintained by the Flanders Marine Institute, Oostende, Belgium

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Sea Level Center (University of Hawaii)

Tide gauges data around the world from GLOSS (Global Sea Level Observing System)

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SOCAT (Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas) A Collection of Surface Ocean CO2 Observations Quality Controlled by the Science Community

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SOOP (Ship of Opportunity Programme) Component of the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), whose mission is to provide a global platform to deploy and operate oceanographic instrumentation from cargo ships and research vessels. This program is responsible for the maintenance of AOML's XBT Network as well as the implementation of Thermosalinograph observations in support of AOML's pCO2 program.

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WOCE delayed-mode sea level data  OPeNDAP/DODS server at BODC LINK
World Ocean Database (global) World Ocean Database 2009 (WOD09) is a scientifically quality-controlled database of selected historical in-situ surface and subsurface oceanographic measurements produced by the Ocean Climate Laboratory (OCL) at the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), ilver Spring, Maryland, USA. WOD09 updates and expands on an earlier version of our roduct, World Ocean Database 2005 (WOD05) by including new data and implementation of the ISO 3166-1 country code standards in the cruise identifier LINK
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)  The aim of a World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is to provide an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine organisms, including information on synonymy. While highest priority goes to valid names, other names in use are included so that this register can serve as a guide to interpret taxonomic literature. LINK
     
 

REGIONAL DATA SOURCES

 
AARI (Antarctic and Arctic Research Institute) (Russian Federation) rovides metadata and some data from Russian Antarctic and Artic met and oceanographic observations LINK
Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) Multidisciplinary programme which undertakes biological, chemical and physical oceanographic research during an annual voyage between the UK and destinations in the South Atlantic.

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Data Collection Framework for Fisheries (European Commission) The JRC data dissemination tool provides access to data submitted by EU Member States to the European Commission under the provisions of the Data Collection Framework (Regulation (EC) 199/2008). Such data have been used by the STECF to respond to requests for advice from the European Commission and are made freely available via this dissemination tool in aggregated form for ease of access.

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European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) The European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) consists of more than 100 organisations assembling marine data, products and metadata to make these fragmented resources more available to public and private users relying on quality-assured, standardised and harmonised marine data which are interoperable and free of restrictions on use. EMODnet is currently in its second development phase with the target to be fully deployed by 2020.

Bathymetry portal

Geology portal

Seabed Habitats portal

Chemistry portal 

Biology portal

Physics portal

Human activities portal

Coastal mapping portal 

ICES Datasets ICES has a well established Data Centre, which manages a number of large dataset collections related to the marine environment.
The datasets are organised so that it is easy to find what you are after, whether you are interested in a particular geographic area, an effect on the environment or a group of shttp://www.seadatanet.org/Data-Accesspecies.

ICES Dataset Collections: http://ices.dk/marine-data/dataset-collections/Pages/default.aspx

ICES Data Portal: http://ecosystemdata.ices.dk/

ICES Meta data catalogue: http://gis.ices.dk/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/home

ICES web services catalogue: http://gis.ices.dk/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/search?facet.q=type%2Fservice

ICES OGC services: http://gis.ices.dk/gis/rest/services

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MGDS (Marine Geoscience Data System) MGDS provides a suite of tools and services for free public access to marine geoscience research data acquired throughout the global oceans and adjoining continental margins. LINK
NCAR/EOL

Bering Sea Project Data Archive: http://beringsea.eol.ucar.edu

Pacific Marine Arctic Regional Synthesis Data Archive: http://pacmars.eol.ucar.edu

 
NSDIC NSIDC manages and distributes scientific data, creates tools for data access, supports data users, performs scientific research, and educates the public about the cryosphere. LINK
OSPAR Data and Information Service

Online tool to improve the discovery, visualisation and accessibility of OSPAR data. Sufficient information is currently available to allow users to access the latest data collected as part of the ongoing monitoring work carried out in the OSPAR Maritime Area

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SeaDataNet data access (regional) The SeaDataNet infrastructure links 40 national oceanographic data centres and marine data centres from 35 countries riparian to all European seas. The data centres manage large sets of marine and ocean data, originating from their own institutes and from other parties in their country, in a variety of data management systems and configurations. A major objective and challenge in SeaDataNet is to provide an integrated and harmonised overview and access to these data resources, using a distributed network approach.
note: data access requires registration

SeaDataNet Metadata catalogue: https://www.seadatanet.org/Metadata

SeaDataNet search data: http://seadatanet.maris2.nl/v_cdi_v3/search.asp

SeaDataNet Browse data: http://seadatanet.maris2.nl/v_cdi_v3/browse_step.asp

SeaDataNet Vocabularies: http://seadatanet.maris2.nl/v_bodc_vocab_v2/welcome.asp

SeaDataNet data products: https://www.seadatanet.org/Products

SIOS (Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System) SIOS is a regional observing system for long-term measurements in and around Svalbard addressing Earth System Science questions. SIOS integrates the existing distributed observational infrastructure and generates added value for all partners beyond what their individual capacities can provide.

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SOOS (Southern Ocean Observing System) SOOS is an international initiative with the mission to facilitate the collection and delivery of essential observations on dynamics and change of Southern Ocean systems to all international stakeholders (researchers, governments, industries), through design, advocacy and implementation of cost-effective observing and data delivery systems.

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UNEP Grid Black Sea Environmental Information (BSEIN)   data link
US IOOS (Integrated Ocean Observing System) US Regional associations of data and model around the US Coast

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ESSO-INCOIS (Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services) ESSO- INCOIS is mandated to provide the best possible ocean information and advisory services to society, industry, government agencies and the scientific community through sustained ocean observations. Provides round-the-clock monitoring and warning services for the coastal population on tsunamis, storm surges, high waves, etc. Both RT and archived data available from a number of platforms.

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ODINWESTPAC (Ocean data and information network for the West Pacific region) (IODE) Provide a number of marine data and information products to serve the needs of WESTPAC member states i.e. Western Pacific region

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PacIOOS (Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System)

Provides data from the Pacific Island region

Comments: PacIOOS supports a variety of data servers to provide easy and interoperable access to data holdings, including THREDDS, ERDDAP, Live Access Server (LAS), and GeoServer.

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IOCARIBE-GOOS (CARICOOS) Provides information from the Caribbean region via IOCARIBE-GOOS

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Waves data (UK and Ireland) Access to all instrumentally recorded wave data held in the UK BODC National Oceanographic Database. Most sites returned data for at least one year and several substantially more than this. LINK
 

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