World Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences
Access: Publicly available resource
Description: WDC-MARE collects, scrutinizes, and disseminates data related to Global Change in the fields of environmental oceanography, marine geosciences, and marine biology. It focuses on georeferenced data (numeric, text, and any kind of binary objects) using the PANGAEA information system as its long-term archive and publication unit.
WDC-MARE is maintained by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM). WDC-MARE reports are also available through the Library of Congress Technical Reports and Standards Unit (TRS).
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Coverage: Various Dates
Subject(s):
Environmental Studies
Publicly Available Resources
Technical Reports and Standards
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