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List of data portals & service providers
PANGAEA
Name: Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science (PANGAEA)
Data Type: earth system research
Description: Publisher for data from institutes, projects, individual scientist and supplements related to publications.
Links: http://www.pangaea.de/, http://www.pangaea.de/submit/
CERA
Name: World Data Center for Climate at DKRZ (WDCC at DKRZ)
Data Type: earth system model data and related observations, data for and from climate research
Description: The services of the WDCC focus on climate data collection, long-term preservation, and dissemination though DKRZ's operational CERA data and information system.
Links: cera-www.dkrz.de
GFZ Potsdam
Name: German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ Potsdam)
Data Type: solid earth geophysics, continental drilling, geoecology, hydrology
Description: The object of research of the GFZ is the Earth System – our planet, on and from which we live, its history and its characteristics, as well as the processes which occur on its surface and within is interior, and the many interactions which exist between the various parts of the system.
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WDC-RSAT
Name: World Data Center for Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere (WDC-RSAT)
Data Type: Remote sensing of the earth’s atmosphere: Observational and value added data
Description: WDC-RSAT, offers scientists and the general public free access (in the sense of a “one-stop shop”) to a continuously growing collection of atmosphere-related satellite-based data sets (ranging from raw to value added data), information products and services. Focus is on atmospheric trace gases, aerosols, dynamics, radiation, and cloud physical parameters.
Links: http://wdc.dlr.de
ESGF
Name: Earth System Grid Federation
Data Type: data from climate research generated for and within climate model intercomparison projects: global model output (e.g. CMIP5), regional model output (e.g. CORDEX) and selected observational data (e.g. obs4MIPs)
Description: ESGF is a worldwide federation for climate data with data nodes in Europe, USA, Canada, China, Japan and Australia. User registration is easy and immediately effective. Registration and data download are free of charge. Most data are also accessible for other purposes than research, even for commercial use.
Links: e.g. http://esgf-data.dkrz.de/esgf-web-fe/, http://pcmdi9.llnl.gov/esgf-web-fe/
IPCC DDC
Name: IPCC Data Distribution Centre
Data Type: data underlying the IPCC Assessment Reports
Description: The IPCC DDC provides climate, socio-economic and environmental data, both from the past and also in scenarios projected into the future. The DDC is overseen by the IPCC Task Group on Data and Scenario Support for Impact and Climate Analysis (TGICA) and jointly managed by the British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC) in the United Kingdom, the ICSU World Data Center Climate (WDCC) in Germany, and the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University, New York, USA. The data are provided by co-operating modelling and analysis centres.
Links: http://ipcc-data.org/
ENES
Name: European Network for Earth System Modelling
Data Type: climate data
Description: The ENES data services will help you to find and access climate data provided by the distributed data centers within the ENES data federation. Information on the different climate models and tools devoloped in Europe and on european high performance computing facilities is also provided.
Links: https://verc.enes.org/data
DWD - GISC
Name: Global Information System Centres
Data Type: WMO (World Meterological Organization) and related international programmes
Description: GISCs collect and distribute the information meant for routine global dissemination, and in addition, they serve as collection and distribution centres in their areas of responsibility, and provide entry points for any request for data held within WIS (WMO Information System) provide a single coordinated global infrastructure for the collection and sharing of information
GetInfo
Name: GetInfo
Data Type: science and technology
Description: provides access to more than 150 million data sets from specialised databases, publishers and library catalogues
DataCite
Name: DataCite
Data Type: research data
Description: DataCite is a not-for-profit worldwide organization helping you to find, access, and reuse data. As a DOI registration agency DataCite assigns persistent identifiers for research data. We have many hundreds of clients of all disciplines around the globe.
Links: http://search.datacite.org/ui, http://datacite.org/services
EUDAT
Name: European Data Infrastructure
Data Type: data objects and collections from various disciplines
Description: B2FIND is the EUDAT metadata service allowing users to discover what kind of data is stored through the B2SAFE and B2SHARE services which collect a large number of datasets from various disciplines. EUDAT will also harvest metadata from communities that have stable metadata providers to create a comprehensive joint catalogue to help researchers find interesting data objects and collections.
Links: http://b2find.eudat.eu
Europeana
Name: Europeana
Data Type: items from a range of Europe's leading galleries, libraries, archives and museums
Description: Books and manuscripts, photos and paintings, television and film, sculpture and crafts, diaries and maps, sheet music and recordings
Links: http://Europeana.eu
C3-Grid
Name: C3-Grid
Data Type: climate data
Description: The C3-Grid Portal provides access to various climate data centers in Germany. DKRZ integrates WDCC and ESGF data into C3-Grid and makes this data available for a set of climate processing workflows.
Links: https://c3portal.awi.de/home
Geoss GEO Portal
Name: Geoss GEO Portal
Data Type: global Earth Observation data, information and services developed by the ESA in collaboration with FAO
Description: Global Earth Observation System of Systems GEOSS is the co-ordination structure for the harmonisation of earth observation systems operated by different national or international institutions around the world.
ICSU's WDS
Name: World Data System
Data Type: Data of WDS Members
Description: Portal allowing for retrieving data from at least part of the WDS Members
DWD geoportal
Name: DWD geoportal
Data Type: Geodata from all over Germany
Description: Maps, aerial views, thematic maps: thematic maps link and merge data into information for use in practice, for instance on favourable locations for wind-power stations.
Links: http://www.geoportal.de/
ICDC
Name: ICDC (Integrated Climate Data Center)
Data Type: Climate relevant data from in-situ measurements and satellite remote sensing
Description: The CliSAP-Integrated Climate Data Center (ICDC) allows easy access to climate relevant data from in-situ measurements and satellite remote sensing. These data are important to determine the status and the changes in the climate system. Additionally some relevant re-analysis data are included, which are modeled on the basis of observational data.
Links: http://icdc.zmaw.de
INSPIRE
Name: INSPIRE
Data Type: Geo spatial data sets
Description: Search, discover and access geographic information provided by European governmental, commercial, and non-commercial organizations.
IEDA Data
Name: Integrated Earth Data Applications
Data Type: Geochemistry, Marine Geophysics, Polar Sciences
Description: IEDA or Integrated Earth Data Applications is a community-based data facility funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to support, sustain, and advance the geosciences by providing data services for observational solid earth data from the Ocean, Earth, and Polar Sciences. IEDA systems enable these data to be discovered and reused by a diverse community now and in the future.
Links: http://www.iedadata.org/
OBIS
Name: Ocean Biogeographic information System
Data Type: marine species datasets from all of the world's oceans
Description: users can identify biodiversity hotspots and large-scale ecological patterns, analyze dispersions of species over time and space, and plot species' locations with temperature, salinity, and depth.
ECMWF
Name: European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Data Type: operational forecast data sets
Description: We provide the results from our operational forecast activities to our Member States and Co-operating States, the members of the WMO and the public. Various levels of access restrictions apply.
GBIF
Name: Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Data Type: biodiversity data
Description: Through a global network of countries and organizations, GBIF promotes and facilitates the mobilization, access, discovery and use of information about the occurrence of organisms over time and across the planet.
Links: http://www.gbif.org/, http://data.gbif.org/welcome.htm
SDDB
Name: The Scientific Drilling Database - Data from Deep Earth Monitoring and Sounding
Data Type: Data from drilling program
Description: Projects in the International Scientific Continental Drilling Program (ICDP) produce large amounts of data. With the online Scientific Drilling Database , ICDP and GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ), Germany created
GCMD
Name: NASA's Global Change Master Directory
Data Type: Earth science data set
Description: The GCMD holds more than 31,000 Earth science data set and service descriptions, which cover subject areas within the Earth and environmental sciences. The project mission is to assist researchers, policy makers, and the public in the discovery of and access to data, related services, and ancillary information (which includes offers online authoring tools to providers of data and services, facilitating the capability to make their products available to the Earth science community.
Links: http://gcmd.nasa.gov/
GCOOS
Name: Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System
Data Type: Gulf of Mexico Research
Description: The GCOOS website envision the sharing of data, models, and products related to the Gulf of Mexico via the internet for the common benefit of all participants, academic researchers, local, state and federal government agencies, educators, the private sector, and the general public.
Links: http://www.gcoos.org
Re3data
Name: Re3data
Data Type: service provider
Description: Register of research data repositories
CSC
Name: Climate Service Center
Data Type: service provider
Description: A team of natural scientists, economists, political scientists and communication-specialists are working at the Climate Service Center. Their tasks are refining the knowledge derived from climate research in a practice-orientated way and conveying the findings to decision-makers in politics, administration, economy and for the broad public.
Regional Climate Office of the Helmholz Association
Name: Regional Climate Office of the Helmholz Association
Data Type: service provider
Description: The effects of global climate change on particular regions vary significantly. Farmers, coastal engineers, town planners and other decision makers need first-hand information on regional climate change in order to adapt their region to the effects. The Helmholtz Association has therefore decided to initiate a German network of regional climate offices. Each of the four Regional Helmholtz Climate Offices is focusing on a certain region. We integrate regional climate change information based on latest research projects and make scientific results understandable to the public.
