Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission (GSMFC) website
Bundesforschungsanstalt Fuer Fischerei website
US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (OER) website
US DOI; US Geological Survey; Woods Hole Science Center website
Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) website
National Institute for Marine Research and Development - Grigore Antipa (NIMRD) website
Scientific Information Systems for the Sea (SISMER) website
Far Eastern Hydrometeorological Institute of Scientific Research (FERHRI) website
CLIVAR and Carbon Hydrographic Data Office (CCHDO) website
National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS) website
Universidad Polytecnica de Catalunya (UPC) website
Institut Francais de Recherche Pour L'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER) website
National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) website
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FFWCC) website
Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) website
US DOC; NOAA; National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) website
Science Applications International Corporation - Raleigh, NC website
International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC) website
IFREMER Station de la Rochelle - L'Houmeau website
University of Maine; Darling Marine Center (DMC) website
Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) website
US DOC; NOAA; NWS; National Centers for Environmental Prediction; Climate Prediction Center (NCEP/CPC) website
Marine Hydrophysical Institute (MHI) website
Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) website
Office of Marine and Aviation Operations website
Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo Pesquero (INIDEP) website
University of Lille; Sciences and Technologies website
Hellenic Navy Hydrographic Service (HNHS) website
Australian National Facility for Ocean Gliders (ANFOG) website
Geosciences Azur - Site de Villefranche website
State Oceanic Administration; First Institute of Oceanography website
Search for data granules belonging to this collection (a granule is the smallest aggregation of data that can be independently described and retrieved).
USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies (USC WIES) website
UBO; European Institute for Marine Studies (IUEM) website
Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links.
US DOC; NOAA; NOS; National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science; Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research (NCCOS/CSCOR) website
Search for data by user-specified criteria and optionally download data.
US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) website
THE FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY website
Marine Resources Research Institute (MRRI) website
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences website
Estacion de Investigaciones Marinas de Margarita (EDIMAR) website
Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) website
Ensenada Center for Scientific Investigation and Higher Education (CICESE) website
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) website
Institute of Marine Sciences, UC Santa Cruz website
Bangor University; School of Ocean Sciences website
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research website
Science Applications International Corporation - Bellevue, WA website
NATO Science and Technology Organization Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (NATO STO-CMRE) website
Australian Bureau of Meteorology website
The Parthenope University of Naples website
Japan Oceanographic Data Center (JODC) website
The World Ocean Database (WOD) is the world's largest publicly available uniform format quality controlled ocean profile dataset. Ocean profile data are sets of measurements of an ocean variable vs. depth at a single geographic location within a short (minutes to hours) temporal period in some portion of the water column from the surface to the bottom. To be considered a profile for the WOD, there must be more than a single depth/variable pair. Multiple profiles at the same location from the same set of instruments is an oceanographic cast. Ocean variables in the WOD include temperature, salinity, oxygen, nutrients, tracers, and biological variables such as plankton and chlorophyll. Quality control procedures are documented and performed on each cast and the results are included as flags on each measurement. The WOD contains the data on the originally measured depth levels (observed) and also interpolated to standard depth levels to present a more uniform set of iso-surfaces for oceanographic and climate work. The source of the WOD is more than 20,000 separate archived data sets contributed by institutions, project, government agencies, and individual investigators from the United States and around the world. Each data set is available in its original form in the National Centers for Environmental Information data archives. All data sets are converted to the same standard format, checked for duplication within the WOD, and assigned quality flags based on objective tests. Additional subjective flags are set upon calculation of ocean climatological mean fields which make up the World Ocean Atlas (WOA) series. The WOD consists of periodic major releases and quarterly updates to those releases. Each major release is associated with a concurrent release of a WOA release, and contains final quality control flags used in the WOA, which includes manual as well as automated steps. Each quarterly update release includes additional historical and recent data and preliminary quality control. The latest major release was WOD 2018 (WOD18), which includes nearly 16 million oceanographic casts, from the second voyage of Captain Cook (1772) to the modern Argo floats (end of 2017). The WOD presents data in netCDF ragged array format following the Climate and Forecast (CF) conventions for ease of use mindful of space limitations.
NCEI Standard Product: World Ocean Database (WOD)
Continental Shelf Associates, Inc website
Service Hydrographique de la Marine (SHOM) website
University of St Andrews; School of Biology; Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) website
Main NCEI website providing links to access data and data services.
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information website
Federal Maritime Agency - Hamburg (BSH) website
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Center for Ocean Observing Leadership (RU COOL) website
US DOC; NOAA; NMFS; Northwest Regional Office (NMFS/NWRO) website
University of Colorado - Boulder; National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) website
The Center for Coastal Margin Observation & Prediction (CMOP) website
Centre de Recherches En Physique de L'Environnement Terrestre et Planetaire (CETP) website
University of Delaware; College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment; School of Marine Science and Policy website
Russian Academy of Sciences; Water Problems Institute website
Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas - National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (IBSS) website
University of Alaska - Fairbanks; Institute of Marine Science (IMS/UAF) website
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) website
Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of Oceanology website
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) website
National Institute of Polar Research; Arctic Environment Research Centre (NIPR AERC) website
Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science (SAHFOS) website
NMFS Alaska Fisheries Science Center website
German Oceanographic Data Center (DOD) website
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) website
US DOC; NOAA; NMFS; Northeast Fisheries Science Center; Woods Hole Laboratory website
Southeast Alaska Inventory and Monitoring Network website
Finnish Institute of Marine Research (FIMR) website
Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) website
Korean Ocean Research and Development Institute (KORDI) website
These data are available through a variety of services via a THREDDS (Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services) Data Server (TDS). Depending on the dataset, the TDS can provide WMS, WCS, DAP, HTTP, and other data access and metadata services as well. For more information on the TDS, see http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/thredds/current/tds/.
Oceanographic Laboratory of Villefranche-sur-Mer (LOV) website
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) website
Louisiana State Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) website
National Taiwan University (NTU) website
Navigate directly to the URL for data access and direct download.
Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) website
Ministry of Agriculture; Department of Fisheries website
US Navy; Arctic Submarine Laboratory (ASL) website
US National Oceanographic Data Center website
Institute of Marine Biology; Far East Branch Russian Academy of Sciences (IMB) website
University of South Florida - St. Petersburg; Florida Institute of Oceanography; Keys Marine Laboratory website
University of Washington; Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) website
Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page.
Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) website
US DOC; NOAA; NWS; National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) website
Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies website
Institute for Baltic Sea Fisheries website
University of Southern Mississippi, Department of Marine Science website
Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) website
Middle East Technical University; Institute of Marine Sciences website
Institute for Biogeochemistry and Marine Chemistry website
University of Cape Town;Department of Environmental and Geographical Science website
These data are available through the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). You may use any FTP client to download these data.
US Navy; Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO) website
Icelandic Marine Research Institute (MRI) website
Marine Environmental Data Section website
Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) website
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR) website
Departement Ecologie et Modeles Pour L'Halieutique (EMH) website
Instituto Del Mar Del Peru - Callao (IMARPE) website
NMFS/AFSC Resource Assessment and Conservation Engineering Division website
Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA) website
University of Bergen; Geophysical Institute (GFI) website
Russian Academy of Sciences; P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology website
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) website
Laboratory for Numerical Simulations of Climate and Marine Ecosystems (SINCEM) website
Texas State Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) website
US DOC; NOAA; NMFS; Alaska Regional Office (NMFS/ARO) website
Servicio Hidrografico Y Oceanografico de la Armada de Chile (SHOA) website
Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques website
Azovsky Nauchno-Issledovatelsky Institut Rybnogo Khozyaystva (AzNIIRKH) website
International Council for Exploration of the Sea (ICES) website
National Oceanographic Committee (CONA) website
Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SkIO) website
Office of Response and Restoration website
Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS) website
Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Blanes (CEAB) website
TAMU - College Station; Geochemical and Environmental Research Group website
US DOI; US Geological Survey (USGS) website
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) website
Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems CRC website
University of Washington; Applied Physics Laboratory; Polar Science Center (UWPSC) website
University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth website
University of California - Santa Barbara; Institute for Computational Earth System Science (ICESS) website
North Carolina State University (NCSU) website
Murmansk Marine Biological Institute (MMBI) website
Scripps Institution of Oceanography website
San Diego State University; Center for Hydro-Optics and Remote Sensing (CHORS) website
Laboratoire de Physique des Océans (OPS LPO) website