Formats

Ocean data has been stored and made available in many formats since marine science began. Everything from curated physical objects, to data available upon request, through to data available instantly through modern services.

This page is a work in progress.

ASCII

SeaDataNet ODV4 ASCII

NetCDF

Network Common Data Format (netCDF) from Unidata is a widely used binary format for the exchange of marine data. There are a number of netCDF conventions that build on the basic netCDF standard that are common to many implementations of netCDF:

Examples of marine netCDF formats include: