The Norwegian Marine Data Centre processes and preserves marine environmental and fisheries data and produces data products.
Institution
British Oceanographic Data Centre
The British Oceanographic Data Centre preserves and distributes marine and oceanographic data for research.
About British Oceanographic Data Centre
The British Oceanographic Data Centre is a national facility for preserving and distributing oceanographic and marine data. It is part of the UK's National Oceanography Centre and sits within the Natural Environment Research Council's Environmental Data Service. Its data helps answer questions from local coastal flooding risk to global climate change. Researchers can also send in their own marine environment data for storage and distribution.
Pricing is not clearly stated.
Key features
- Instant access to over 130,000 unique data sets
- Online submission guidelines and templates for marine environment data
- Cruise inventory of UK research vessel activities from 1947 to the present day
- Inventories and vocabularies that can be searched
- BODC acts as the UK Argo Data Centre
- Highlighted projects include GEBCO and MERMAN
Best for: Scientists, educational establishments, industry and the public who need oceanographic or marine data.
Good for
- Data is stored, quality controlled and archived so it stays available over time
- Each data set is documented with information on collection and analysis
Watch out for
- Not all holdings are accessible online at present
- Much of the data comes from research projects that run for a limited time
- Commercial use may be restricted by a licence and charged for some data
British Oceanographic Data Centre at a glance
- Official website
- bodc.ac.uk
- Category
- Research & Data › Open Data & Datasets
- Type
- Institution
- Platforms
- Web
- Details verified
- Oct 21, 2026 · Official source
- Last checked
- Oct 7, 2026 · Online when checked
- Listed
- Oct 5, 2026
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The holdings come from scientific research, long and short-term monitoring by academic and commercial bodies, and multidisciplinary projects.
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