Below are the important links to ocean database around the world. I collected them here for easy searching for young oceanographers. Some of them, I found from other website, such as from Eleanor Frajka-Williams’s website. I will add more if I found many others useful links in oceanography. Please let me know other useful website so I can put here too.
- INSTANT project: Velocity at Makassar, Lombok, Ombai and Timor Straits of the Indonesian maritime.
- Quikscat ocean winds
- NCEP Reanalysis 2 daily surface heat fluxes
- ETOPO Bathymetry
- World Ocean Database 2005
- World Ocean Atlas 2009
- SeaWiFS Ocean Color
- Altimetry – Along Track Gridded Sea Surface Height Anomaly
- Altimetry – Gridded (AVISO multimission)
- IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library: The IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library contains a wide variety of earth science data, primarily oceanographic and atmospheric datasets.
- NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center: The mission of CDC is to identify the nature and causes of climate variations on time scales ranging from a month to centuries. The goal of this work is to develop the ability to predict important climate variations on these time scales.
- IPCC DATA DISTRIBUTION CENTRE
- NCAR/DSS Research Data Website: This site contains information about the meteorological and oceanographic research data in our archive, and for some of our datasets, direct access to the data. You will also find supporting documentation and access software for most of our datasets, as well as documentation and software for some of the major formats used for meteorological and oceanographic research data. We also have information and data for several large special projects.
- NOAA/PMEL Tropical Atmosphere Ocean project: TAO/TRITON Ocean datasets
- Argo – float data
- YoMaHa ’07 – Argo float trajectory data
- NASA/PO.DAAC Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center
- NASA Langley Atmospheric Sciences Data Center (Distributed Active Archive Center)
- NASA/GSFC Earth Sciences Distributed Active Archive Center
- NASDA Earth Observation Research Center
- JAMSTEC data sites for research cruises
- World Data Centre for Greenhouse Gases (WMO Global Atmosphere Watch)
- Global Change Master Directory: A comprehensive directory about Earth science and global change data.
- XBT NOAA data (Temperature and salinity profile)
- XBT Data – Bureau of Meteorology, Australia
- OTIS or TMD: Global tidal atlas
- FES2004 : Ocean tidal model
- NAO99:
- HAMTIDE
- The time series of the sea level from Univ. of Hawaii
