NODC Global and Coastal Inorganic Carbon Data Inventory

NODC has been funded in FY12 to serve as NOAA's OAP data focal point through its OADS project. OADS seeks to manage several NOAA OAP funded projects. NODC has the world's largest collection of publically available ocean and costal discreet inorganic carbon in situ measured data. The data come from academic insitutions, national and international oceanographic projects including WOCE and CLIVAR/CO₂ repeat hydragraphy.

NODC automated data streams

NODC archives coastal and ocean oceanographic data streams received by means of automated transfer of data from Data Acquisition Centers such as BCO-DMO, CDIAC, and CCHDO (e.g., WOCE/CLIVAR, Vessels of Opportunity, Time Series, and Coastal data streams at NODC). CDIAC and CCHDO maintain manual updates of their carbon-related data holdings. NODC auotmatically acquires all of the CCHDO data quarterly. BCO-DMO automatically sends their data sets when ready to NODC for archival. NODC is working to automatically acquire data from many sources and projects such as NDBC, R2R, IOOS, OceanSITES, and others.

World Ocean Database

The NODC World Ocean Database (WOD) is a collection of scientifically quality-controlled ocean profile and plankton in situ data in one digital format extracted from the NODC archives. The database is updated as resources allow with newer data as received at NODC. WOD includes profile inorganic carbon related data for pH, DIC, Alk, pCO₂, andd xCO₂

NODC carbon-related and hydrographic data

• NODC Geoportal - provides direct access to the NODC archive of originators' data as received at NODC from investigators
• NODC Ocean Archive System - our older originator original data search interface to the NODC archive of originators' data
• NODC Live Access Server - provide access and visualization to geo-referenced scientific data
• NODC World Ocean Database - provides access to selected oceanographic data in a common format
• NODC OPeNDAP services - provides direct access to NODC data archives and most data products

For questions please contact NODC.Ocean.Acidification@noaa.gov

Web page last updated November 30, 2012 10:49 AM