Access to information describing data sets held by BODC — a subset of the information held in the European Directory of Marine Environmental Data (EDMED).

Read about and search the cruise inventory.

EDMED is a European standard for indexing and searching data sets relating to the marine environment.

GLOSS is a programme coordinated by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) for the establishment of global and regional sea level networks.

The NERC Data Catalogue Service allows you to find data resources held within the NERC catalogue.

Read about the BODC conditions in depositing metadata with BODC.

Use this tool to search through the controlled vocabularies provided by the NERC vocabulary server.

The vocabulary editor allows external authorities access to their vocabularies without the need for manual interaction by BODC.

The vocabulary builder allows users to browse vocabularies based on their semantic building blocks.

Parameter dictionaries are used to label parameters with a standard description rather than allowing personal interpretation. Read more about BODC parameter codes and dictionaries.

A combined SeaDataNet and MarineXML Vocabulary Content Governance Group (SeaVoX) has been set up to keep vocabulary content up to date.

This is a generalised output format to handle most types of data held in the BODC databases.

This is an ASCII output format to handle profile, time series and trajectory data held in the BODC databases.

QXF is BODC's primary datacycle storage format.

This data format was developed as a community standard for encoding data in netCDF.

AXF format was established by BODC as an exchange and archive format.

BODC hold and distribute sea level data from a variety of initiatives. Data are made available in several standard formats as required by the applications.

View the range of data products available.

BODC has developed software products for displaying, analysing and accessing data.

Our Web Services open a window to the information and data holdings at BODC.

Help with using this web site, including information on site accessibility, access keys, site styles, our content disclaimer and copyright and privacy policies.

Find out about updates to the interface software provided with BODC data products.

Information on errata for our data products.

A set of frequently asked questions.

We are working on this portal, so eventually you will be able to search through all of BODC's sea level data holdings and, where possible, download the data.

The MEDIN web site is a portal to data and information concerning the marine environment.

The SeaDataNet web site provides access to data, information, and products derived from in situ oceanographic measurements.

The Centralised European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) portal provides access to unified European marine data and information products.

The Environmental Data Service (EDS) is made up of a network of NERC funded data centres, each with their own specific environmental domain.

GEOTRACES is an international programme that aims to improve our understanding of biogeochemical cycles and large-scale distribution of trace elements and their isotopes (TEIs) in the marine environment.

MERMAN holds UK data collected to fulfil the UK’s mandatory monitoring requirements under the Oslo and Paris Convention (OSPAR) Joint Assessments and Monitoring Programme (JAMP).