| Original Source or Data Type |
Where Obtained, or How Obtained? |
Used Where in MDL? |
| Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) |
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| Aquarius Mission |
THREDDS catalog in IDV |
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| Argo Profiles |
Coriolis; GTSPP |
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| ASCAT |
THREDDS catalog in IDV |
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| AVISO |
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| CIMAS Ocean Surface Currents Atlas |
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| Climatology of Global Ocean Winds (COGOW) |
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| COADS/iCOADS Analysed Parameters |
US National Virtual Oceanographic Data Server (NVODS) |
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| CTD System from SeaBird |
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| Electronic Navigation Charts (ENC) |
Sources listed in exercise |
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Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC)
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| GEBCO Gridded Bathymetry Data |
GEBCO 2003 DVD or online download |
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| GEBCO Digital Relief Contours |
GEBCO 2003 (CD or DVD) |
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GEOnet Names Server - Global feature coordinates and names, outside the USA and Antarctica
"GNS does not contain any coverage data for the United States of America or its Dependent areas nor does it cover Antarctica. To obtain U.S. or Antarctica coverage data, please access the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) database of names." From the website
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| Giovanni |
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| Global Drifter Program (GDP) |
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| Global Administrative Areas (GADM) |
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| Global Forecast System (GFS) |
NOMADS |
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| Global Land Cover Facility (GLCF) |
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| Global Ocean Data Analysis Project (GLODAP) |
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| GlobColour: European Service for Ocean Colour |
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| Global Self-Consistent, Hierarchical, High-Resolution Geography Database (GSHHG) |
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| GlobWave Project |
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| Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) |
(Includes G1SST and MUR) |
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| HYCOM Consortium |
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| HYCOM Mean Fields from Hindcast Experiment with the 1/12° Globe |
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| Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) |
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| LIDAR Data of the Serpent Mounds Area, Ohio, USA |
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| Marine Climatic Atlas of the World CD-ROM Version 1.1 |
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| Marine Regions - Consolidated from VLIZ Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase and VLIMAR, the VLIZ Marine Gazetteer; includes all EEZ data |
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| MIRAS Salinity via CoastWatch |
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| Mixed Layer Depths (MLD) |
UCSD/Scripps |
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| MODIS A |
Various as indicated in the exercises |
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| MODIS Visual Images |
US NASA EOSDIS Rapid Response |
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| MyOcean - Multiple operational and synoptic data for the global ocean and the European seas, from various sources; list here may not be complete |
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| National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) |
NDBC SOS Server |
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| National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) |
GSHHG and NGDC Trackline Geophysical Data |
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| National Hurricane Center (NHC) |
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| National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) |
Various (INGRID, NOAASelect, NVODS, World Ocean Atlas (WOA) and ODV Collections) |
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| National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) |
World Ocean Database Select (WODSelect) |
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Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System (NOGAPS)
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USGODAE - OPeNDAP/LAS |
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| NCEP Global Ensemble Forecasting System (GEFS) |
UNIDATA THREDDS Data Server |
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| NCOM Global Ocean Model |
Unified Access Framework GEOIDE |
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| NODC Sea Surface Temperature, Sea Ice Fraction and Wind grids archive |
US NODC Live Access Server |
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| Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET.NO) Ocean & Sea Ice Service |
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| Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) |
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| Ocean Data Portal (ODP) |
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| OceanColor Web The data delivery format has changed from HDF to NetCDF. This makes exercises 2.21 and 2.36 completely out of date, among others; they are being revised accordingly. If you obtain data from OCW, then you can use any of the direct, easy methods for NetCDF import into Saga, Integrated Data Viewer, ncBrowse or Panoply. |
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| OceanWatch Primary Production |
THREDDS catalog in IDV |
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| OSCAR - Only global satellite-sensed current data |
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| PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science |
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| PISCES - Pelagic Interaction Scheme for Carbon and Ecosystem Studies |
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| RapidScat Winds |
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| Real-Time Ocean Forecasting System RTOFS (Global) |
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| Total Sediment Thickness of the World's Oceans & Marginal Seas |
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| Shuttle Relief Topography Mission (SRTM) |
DIVA |
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| TIDE Model from TOPEX/POSEIDON Altimetry: GOT99.2 |
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| United Kingdom Meteorological Office (UKMO) Admiralty TIDES |
EasyTide |
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| Global TRANSMISSOMETER Database |
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| Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) |
Giovanni |
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| Wave Climatology of the EU |
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| Wave Watch III (WW3) |
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| WORLD BORDERS Dataset |
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World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) Atlases:
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