NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NOAA CoastWatch ERDDAP Server

ERDDAP (Environmental Research Division Data Access Program) is a NOAA-funded, open-source server that unifies access to gridded (`griddap`) and tabular (`tabledap`) scientific datasets across OPeNDAP, WMS, and REST. CoastWatch, ERD/PFEG, NCEI, IOOS, and many NOAA line offices each operate ERDDAP instances exposing tens of thousands of datasets (satellite SST, chlorophyll, ocean color, altimetry, model output, in-situ observations) in CSV, JSON, NetCDF, MATLAB, Parquet, and image formats.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/information.html
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Documentation
https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/rest.html
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Documentation
https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/griddap/documentation.html

Other Resources

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BaseURL
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/erddap/
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BaseURL
https://coastwatch.noaa.gov/erddap/

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: noaa-gov:erddap-coastwatch
name: NOAA CoastWatch ERDDAP Server
description: ERDDAP (Environmental Research Division Data Access Program) is a NOAA-funded, open-source
  server that unifies access to gridded (`griddap`) and tabular (`tabledap`) scientific datasets across
  OPeNDAP, WMS, and REST. CoastWatch, ERD/PFEG, NCEI, IOOS, and many NOAA line offices each operate ERDDAP
  instances exposing tens of thousands of datasets (satellite SST, chlorophyll, ocean color, altimetry,
  model output, in-situ observations) in CSV, JSON, NetCDF, MATLAB, Parquet, and image formats.
humanURL: https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/information.html
baseURL: https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap
tags:
- Ocean
- Satellite
- Climate
- Scientific Data
- OPeNDAP
properties:
- url: https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/information.html
  type: Documentation
- url: https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/rest.html
  type: Documentation
- url: https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/griddap/documentation.html
  type: Documentation
- url: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/erddap/
  type: BaseURL
- url: https://coastwatch.noaa.gov/erddap/
  type: BaseURL