Oceanography Data Resources
CO-OPS provides the national infrastructure, science, and technical expertise to monitor, assess, and distribute tide, current, water level, and other coastal oceanographic products and services that support NOAA's mission of environmental stewardship and environmental assessment and prediction. CO-OPS provides operationally sound observations and monitoring capabilities coupled with operational Nowcast Forecasting modeling.
The NODC manages the world's largest collection of publicly available oceanographic data. NODC holdings include in situ and remotely sensed physical, chemical, and biological oceanographic data from coastal and deep ocean areas. These were orignally collected for a variety of operational and research missions by U.S. Federal agencies, including the Department of Defense (primarily the U.S. Navy); by State and local governmetn agencies; by universities and research institutions; and private industry. NODC data holdings extend back over one hundred years, and the volume is expected to grow exponentially as new ocean observing systems are deployed.
The BCO-DMO was created to serve PIs funded by the NSF Geosciences Directorate (GEO) Division of Ocean Sciences Biological and Chemical Oceanography Programs and Office of Polar Programs Antarctic Sciences Organsims & Ecosystems Program.
Project and/or data websites created by members of the WHOI Department of Physical Oceanography