Repository details

World Ocean Database

Name of repository
World Ocean Database
Additional name(s)
  • WOD
Repository URL
https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/WOD/pr_wod.html
Subject(s)
Description
The World Ocean Database (WOD) is a collection of scientifically quality-controlled ocean profile and plankton data that includes measurements of temperature, salinity, oxygen, phosphate, nitrate, silicate, chlorophyll, alkalinity, pH, pCO2, TCO2, Tritium, Δ13Carbon, Δ14Carbon, Δ18Oxygen, Freon, Helium, Δ3Helium, Neon, and plankton. WOD contains all data of "World Data Service Oceanography" (WDS-Oceanography).
Contact(s)
  • OCL.help@noaa.gov
Keyword(s)
Persistent identifier(s) of the repository
Repository type(s)
  • disciplinary
  • institutional
Mission statement for designated community
https://data.nodc.noaa.gov/woa/WOD/DOC/wod_intro.pdf
Research data repository language(s)
  • English
Data and/or service provider
  • dataProvider
  • serviceProvider

Institutions (4)

Institution
National Centers for Environmental Information
Additional name(s)
  • NCEI
Institution
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution
National Centers for Environmental Information, Ocean Climate Laboratory
Additional name(s)
  • OCL
  • NCEI
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution
National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
Additional name(s)
  • NESDIS
Institution
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration
Additional name(s)
  • NOAA
Institution
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit

Policies (1)

Policy Name
NOAA Data Access Procedural Directive

Database access

Type of access to research data repository
open

Data access (1)

Type of access to data
open

Data licenses (2)

DataLicense
Public Domain
DataLicense
Public Domain

Data upload (1)

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

Data upload license (1)

Data upload license name
NCEI Submission Guidance for Data Providers
Persistent identifier system(s)
  • none
Versioning
yes
Data citation guideline
https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/WOD/wod-woa-faqs.html#WOD18
Enhanced Publication
unknown
Quality management
yes

Application programming interfaces (2)

Type
FTP
Url
ftp://ftp.nodc.noaa.gov/pub/data.nodc/
Type
NetCDF
Url
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/world-ocean-database-select/dbsearch.html

Metadata standards (2)

Metadata standard
CF (Climate and Forecast) Metadata Conventions
Metadata standard
ISO 19115

Alerting services (1)

Type of alerting service
RSS

Remarks

Remarks
Previous: World Data Center for Oceanography, Silver Spring
Entry date
2015-04-09
Last update
2023-05-10
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re3data.org: World Ocean Database; editing status 2023-05-10; re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories. http://doi.org/10.17616/R3FS8S last accessed: 2025-05-09