National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

noaa-environmental-reasearch-divisions-data-access-program-erddap

Environmental Research Division's Data Access Program (ERDDAP)

ERDDAP (the Environmental Research Division's Data Access Program) is a data server that gives you a simple, consistent way to download subsets of scientific datasets in common file formats and make graphs and maps. This particular ERDDAP installation has oceanographic data (for example, data from satellites and buoys). CoastWatch has expanded from POES/AVHRR SST data for the East Coast to providing a variety of environmental data (i.e. SST, ocean color, winds, etc.) from several different satellite platforms covering all U.S. coastal waters, including Hawaii and Alaska. Today, sea surface temperature maps support meteorological weather predictions and also support commercial and recreational activities (e.g., fishing). Biologists utilize ocean color radiometry data and derived chlorophyll-a and total suspended matter/turbidity products to identify runoff plumes and blooms and also predict HABs; and sailors and commercial shipping pilots use ocean surface vector winds for safe navigation.

http://coastwatch.pfel.noaa.gov/erddap/index.html

Also known as :

• identifier DOC-5263 (datagov lexicon)
• dataset environmental-reasearch-divisions-data-access-program-erddap (datagov lexicon)