Data Access Tools

The "all-in-one" NOAA CoastWatch / OceanWatch Data Portal for viewing products and accessing data files has been updated with new features and more data:  Visualize, layer, geographically and temporally subset data products and download files for your selections

The CoastWatch Utilities let users work with earth science data created by NOAA CoastWatch / OceanWatch. Users can easily view and convert data in various formats: HDF 4, NOAA 1b, and NetCDF 4. The software has both interactive and batch processing tools. 

The ERDDAP data server provides a simple, consistent way to subset and download gridded (Level 3 and above) environmental datasets in common file formats with options to make graphs and maps.  At NOAA CoastWatch / OceanWatch / PolarWatch, all of the regional nodes and the CoastWatch Central hub now have ERDDAP servers in place as an option for data access. 

The data shared in this NOAA in situ Ocean Color Database are made freely available to the public and the scientific community with the intent that the wide dissemination of data lead to greater understanding, new insights and applications, and improved outcomes from decision-making and also in accordance with the NOAA Data and Publication Sharing Directive for NOAA Grants, Cooperative Agreements, and Contracts, V.3 (2016). The investigators sharing their data through this database rely on the ethics and integrity of the user to ensure that the institutions and investigators involved in producing these data receive fair credit for their work.

The Near Real Time Search tool gives the user the ability of selecting OceanWatch data products based on their region of interest, the products associated with that region, the individual sensor used to obtain this data, and a time period of interest. Products can be obtained either by category or by selecting criteria in the Search Criteria panel on the left.

The Radar Altimeter Database System (RADS) was developed by the Delft Institute for Earth-Oriented Space Research, the NOAA Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry, and EUMETSAT. RADS provides a suite of tools or utilities that simplify the reading, editing and handling of data from multiple satellite radar altimeters. These tools abstract the user from having to work directly with the NetCDF datasets. Updates and corrections usually are performed to the data files, allowing the software tools to remain unchanged.

The THREDDS Data Server (TDS) is a web server that provides metadata and data access for scientific datasets, using OPeNDAP, OGC WMS and WCS, HTTP, and other remote data access protocols. The TDS is developed and supported by Unidata, a division of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), and is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.