Data Centers, Databases & Metadatabases

Canada

• Canadian National Data Centre for Earthquake Seismology and Nuclear Explosion Monitoring
• Marine Environmental Data Service - Fisheries and Oceans Canada

China

• National Marine Data and Information Service (NMDIS)
• Ocean Data Acquisition System (ODAS) Metadata Service

Japan

• Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology (JAMSTEC)
• Japan Oceanographic Data Center (JODC)
• Marine Information Research Center (MIRC) of Japan Hydrographic Association

Russia

• All-Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information - World Data Center (RIHMI-WDC)
  • Climate Research Data Sets
  • CliWare Hydrometeorology Information Service System
  • Hydrometeorological Data
  • National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)
  • Russian State Funded Databases
  • World Data Center Catalogues of Data and Publications
• Unified System of Information on the World Ocean Condition - Provides various international data sets in CD-ROM and on-line data sets links.

South Korea

• Korea Oceanographic Data Center (KODC)
  • Korea Oceanographic Data and Information Service (KODIS)

United States

• Alaska's Cooperatively Implemented Information Management System (CIIMMS)
• Bering and Chukchi Sea Database (USGS) - Digital bathymetry coverages to support marine animal research in the Bering and Chukchi Seas
• Geodata.gov
• NASA National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC)
• National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
  • GeoSpatial Data & Climate Services (GDCS)
  • Global Change Data & Information System (GCDIS)
  • Global Climate Observing System (GCOS)
  • National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
  • National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC)
  • National Data Buoy Center (NDBC)
  • National Environmental Data Index (NEDI)
  • National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
  • National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)
  • NOAA Server
  • nowCOAST
  • NWS Climate Prediction Center (CPC)
• National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
• Oregon Coast Geospatial Clearinghouse (Oregon State University)
• Polar Science Center (University of Washington)

International

• GLOSS (Global Sea Level Observing System)
• GODAR (Global Oceanographic Data Archeology & Rescue Projects)
• GOOS (Global Ocean Observing System)
  • Argo
  • GEO (Global Eulerian Observations)
  • GODAE (Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment)
  • NEAR-GOOS (North-East Asian Regional Global Ocean Observing System)
• IODE (International Oceanographic Data & Information Exchange)
  • MEDI (Marine Environmental Data Inventory)
• NERC (National Environment Research Council) Designated Data Centres
  • Arctic Environmental Metadata Centre
  • British Atmospheric Data Centre
  • British Oceanographic Data Centre
  • Earth Observation Data Centre
  • Environmental Information Centre
  • National Geoscience Data Centre
• NSDI FGDC Clearinghouse Gateway