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NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information - World Data Service for Oceanography

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Name of repository
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information - World Data Service for Oceanography
Additional name(s)
  • formerly: WDC - A
  • WDS for Oceanography
  • formerly: WDC - Oceanography, Silver Spring
  • formerly: World Data Center for Oceanography, Silver Spring
  • World Data Service for Oceanography
Repository URL
https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/index.html
Subject(s)
Description
<<<!!!<<< The demand for high-value environmental data and information has dramatically increased in recent years. To improve our ability to meet that demand, NOAA’s former three data centers—the National Climatic Data Center, the National Geophysical Data Center, and the National Oceanographic Data Center, which includes the National Coastal Data Development Center—have merged into the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). >>>!!!>>> NCEI is responsible for hosting and providing access to one of the most significant archives on Earth, with comprehensive oceanic, atmospheric, and geophysical data. From the depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun and from million-year-old sediment records to near real-time satellite images, NCEI is the Nation's leading authority for environmental information. The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), which hosts the World Data Service for Oceanography is a national environmental data center operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce. NCEI are responsible for hosting and providing access to one of the most significant archives on earth, with comprehensive oceanic, atmospheric, and geophysical data. The primary mission of the World Data Service for Oceanography is to ensure that global oceanographic datasets collected at great cost are maintained in a permanent archive that is easily and openly accessible to the world science community and to other users.
Contact(s)
Keyword(s)
Repository type(s)
  • disciplinary
  • institutional
Mission statement for designated community
https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/about/index.html
Research data repository language(s)
  • English
Data and/or service provider
  • dataProvider

Dates

Offline
2023-05-09

Institutions (2)

Institution name
NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information
Additional name(s)
  • NCEI
Institution identifier(s)
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • technical
  • general
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Additional name(s)
  • NOAA
Institution identifier(s)
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
Type of institution
non-profit

Policies (3)

Policy name
Data Policy
Policy name
ICSU World Data System Constitution
Policy name
CoreTrustSeal Assessment

Database access

Type of access to research data repository
open

Data access (1)

Type of access to data
open

Data licenses (5)

Data license
other
Data license
other
Data license
other
Data license
other
Data license
other

Data upload (1)

Type of data upload
restricted
Data upload restriction type(s)
  • feeRequired

Data upload license (1)

Data upload license name
NODC Submission Information Form
Persistent identifier system(s)
  • DOI
Name of the repository software
  • unknown
Versioning
no
Data citation guideline
https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/nodcdisclaimer.html
Enhanced publication
yes

Application programming interfaces (5)

Type
OAI-PMH
Url
http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/oai-pmh?verb=identify
Type
FTP
Url
ftp://ftp.nodc.noaa.gov/
Type
FTP
Url
ftp://ftp.nodc.noaa.gov/pub/data.nodc/
Type
other
Url
https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/access/services.html
Type
other
Url
https://www.icsu-wds.org/community/membership/regular-members/@@member_view?fid=wdc-oceanography-silver-spring

Metadata standards (4)

Metadata standard
DIF (Directory Interchange Format)
Metadata standard
EML (Ecological Metadata Language)
Metadata standard
FGDC/CSDGM (Federal Geographic Data Committee Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata)
Metadata standard
ISO 19115

Alerting services (1)

Type of alerting service
RSS

Remarks

Remarks
The WDS-Oceanography Catalogue will no longer be updated. For access to all data available through WDS-Oceanography, please go to the NCEI World Ocean Database WODselect https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100011580 or https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/WOD/pr_wod.html. The WDS-Oceanography Catalogue will no longer be updated. For accession to all data available through WDS-Oceanography, please go to NCEI World Ocean Database WODselect https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100011580 or the US National Oceanographic Data Center’s http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/WOD/pr_wod.html. See "World Ocean Database" - Citations in any entry.
Entry date
2013-05-16
Last update
2026-02-16
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re3data.org: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information - World Data Service for Oceanography; editing status 2026-02-16; re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories. https://doi.org/10.17616/R3NG6S last accessed: 2026-06-16