The NERC Data Discovery Service allows you to find data resources held within the NERC DataGrid (NDG) catalogue.
The catalogue makes data discovery easier as it connects data held in managed archives and other initiatives.
It is populated with 'discovery' metadata (information about data sets) harvested on a regular basis from the
NERC Data Centres and other providers in the UK and worldwide.
Choose one or more search categories to query the catalogue and return data sets of interest.
Links to further information and/or data access are provided in the responses.
Text Search
Vocab term search provides an autocomplete text field - which searches the vocabulary server
for terms which match the input text - suggesting possible terms to use in a search. Currently this looks at just the CF Standard names list hosted by BODC
Note, the text field will ONLY accept valid vocab terms and when these are searched on, a
standard text search, similar to that facilitated by the 'Free text search' input, is undertaken.
Note, also, if both vocab term and free text data are input, both are used in the subsequent
text search.
Terms are only looked up after two characters are entered, to narrow options. Additionally, it is
possible to use the wildcard, '*' to match multiple letters in a term.
Free text search looks through the entire database of discovery documents, or it can be limited
to the Author (dataset creator), or Parameter fields
Note that it is possible to get a document returned which apparently does not include the
search term; this can occur when the html view does not reflect the entire document content.
The document pages include links to fuller and more original versions in viewable XML if you
suspect this is occurring and wish to track down obscure matches.
Enter term for vocabulary assisted text search..
This input is an autocomplete text box; after you've typed the first two letters of the
term to be used, it will start to query the vocab server and present a list of matching
options. At this point, you can either select from the list, or narrow the selections by
typing further. NB, only inputs that correspond to valid names retrieved from the server
are allowed as inputs in this box. Note, it is possible to use the wildcard, '*' to match
multiple letters.
Temporal coverage (YYYY/MM/DD)
You can find datasets which have data within a specific time range by using the temporal coverage
Start date
End date
Source data providers
Your search can be limited to NERC data centres alone
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