NOAA ERDDAP · Example Payload

Search Datasets

Search for datasets using keywords. Returns all datasets matching 'sea surface temperature'.

OceanographyMeteorologyClimateEnvironmental Datagridded dataTabular DataScientific DataGovernmentNOAAOpen Data

Search Datasets is an example object payload from NOAA ERDDAP, with 4 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

titledescriptionrequestresponse

Example Payload

{
  "title": "Full-text dataset search",
  "description": "Search for datasets using keywords. Returns all datasets matching 'sea surface temperature'.",
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/search/index.json?searchFor=sea+surface+temperature&page=1&itemsPerPage=10"
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "contentType": "application/json",
    "body": {
      "table": {
        "columnNames": ["griddap", "Subset", "tabledap", "Make A Graph", "wms", "files", "Accessible", "Title", "Summary", "FGDC", "ISO 19115", "Info", "Background Info", "RSS", "Email", "Institution", "ID"],
        "columnTypes": ["String", "String", "String", "String", "String", "String", "String", "String", "String", "String", "String", "String", "String", "String", "String", "String", "String"],
        "rows": [
          [
            "https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/griddap/erdMBsstd1day",
            "",
            "",
            "https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/griddap/erdMBsstd1day.graph",
            "https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/wms/erdMBsstd1day/request",
            "",
            "public",
            "SST, Aqua MODIS, NPP, 0.025 degrees, Pacific, Daytime, 2006-present (1 Day Composite)",
            "MODIS Aqua Level-3 standard mapped image, sea surface temperature, 4μm, day. Processed with Science Quality processing, Version R2019.0.",
            "https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/metadata/fgdc/xml/erdMBsstd1day_fgdc.xml",
            "https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/metadata/iso19115/xml/erdMBsstd1day_iso19115.xml",
            "https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/info/erdMBsstd1day/index.json",
            "https://oceanwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/thredds/dodsC/satellite/MB/sst/1day",
            "https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/rss/erdMBsstd1day.rss",
            "https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/subscriptions/add.html?datasetID=erdMBsstd1day&showErrors=false&email=",
            "NOAA NMFS SWFSC ERD",
            "erdMBsstd1day"
          ]
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}

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