Products and Services
Originators' Data and Archive
- Geoportal: Search page | Browse Tree
- Ocean Archive System (OAS)
Both of these systems search the same archived data sets. The OAS is our older interface, while the Geoportal is newer and brings together our various discovery web services and metadata into a user-focused framework. The Geoportal also enables a robust set of machine-to-machine discovery services.
Satellite Data
- Coral Reef Temperature Anomaly Database (CoRTAD)
- Group for High Resolution SST (GHRSST)
- Geosat Exact Repeat Mission
- Jason-2 / Jason-3 Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM) Satellite Products Archive
- Ocean Color Archive
- Pathfinder 5.3: Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Data
- Satellite Data Animations
- Satellite Climatologies
- Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) Quality Monitoring
- Satellite Ocean Heat Content Suite
Regional Products
- Harmful Algal Blooms Observing Systems (HABSOS)
- Regional Climatologies:
- Gulf of Mexico:
- Gulf of Mexico Data Atlas
- Gulf of Mexico Regional Climatology
- Deepwater Horizon (DWH) Oil Spill Event Data
- NOAA Deepwater Horizon Institutional Repository (DWH-IR)
- Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Watch
- Coastal Ecosystems Maps
- Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary
- Gulf of Mexico Marine Debris Project - Historical
- NOAA Habitat Restoration Monitoring (NOHARM)
- KOD: Korea Oceanographic Database
- International Ocean Atlases
- Coral Reef Information System
- Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Archive Data Portal
- Arctic Action Team
Observational & Near Real Time Data
Instrument types
- Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler data (ADCP) and Joint Archive for Shipboard ADCP
- Argo Profiling Floats
- Buoy Data
- Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) Bias Depth and Temperature Corrections
- Mechanical Bathythermograph (MBT) Bias Depth and Temperature Corrections
- For global quality controlled XBT, MBT, Conductivity/Temperature/Depth (CTD), glider data, and/or bottle data see the World Ocean Database.
Our data collections contain hundreds of instrument types: browse
Ocean Profile Data
- World Ocean Database (WOD) – global, in situ, quality controlled database: WODSelect: search feature
- Global Temperature Salinity Profile Program (GTSPP)
- Argo Profiling Floats
Note: WOD includes GTSPP and Argo data, plus more
Ocean Climatology
Satellite
In situ
Project Data
- Harmful Algal Blooms Observing Systems (HABSOS)
- Coral Reef Information System (CoRIS)
- Global Argo Data Repository
- Global Ocean Heat & Salt Content
- Global Temperature Salinity Profile Program (GTSPP)
- Joint Archive for Sealevel (JASL)
- KOD: Korea Oceanographic Database
- Louisiana - Texas Shelf Physical Oceanography Program (LATEX)
- Ocean Acidification Scientific Data Stewardship (OADS)
- Ocean Carbon Data System (OCADS)
- Global Ocean Currents Database - current meter data
- WOCE: World Ocean Circulation Experiment
- WOD: World Ocean Database
- Ocean Exploration and Research Data Management
- Ocean Exploration and Research Video Data Portal
- Deep-Sea Coral Data Portal
- Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Archive Data Portal
International Ocean Atlas Series
- Vol.13 - Climatological Atlas of the Nordic Seas and Northern North Atlantic
- Vol.12 - Climatic Atlas of the North Pacific Seas 2009
- Vol.11 - Climatic Atlas of the Sea of Azov 2008
- Vol.10 - Climatic Atlas of the Sea of Azov 2006
- Vol.09 - Climatic Atlas of the Arctic Seas 2004 (4.7 MB)
- Vol.08 - History of the Arctic Exploration 2003
- Vol.07 - 36 Year Time Series (1963-1998) of Zooplankton, Temperature, and Salinity in the White Sea
- Vol.06 - Zooplankton of the Arctic Seas 2002
- Vol.05 - Russian Marine Expeditionary Investigations of the World Ocean (8.4 KB)
- Vol.04 - Atlas of Temperature-Salinity Frequency Distributions
- Vol.03 - Hydrochemical Atlas of the Sea of Okhotsk
- Vol.02 - Biological Atlas of the Arctic Seas 2000 - Plankton of the Barents and Kara Seas
- Vol.01 - Climatic Atlas of the Barents Sea 1998
Data Services
- THREDDS: https://data.nodc.noaa.gov/thredds/
- Live Access Server: https://data.nodc.noaa.gov/las/
- HTTP: https://data.nodc.noaa.gov/
- FTP: ftp://ftp.nodc.noaa.gov/pub/data.nodc/
- Geoportal: https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archivesearch/
- REST: available for selected map services