Catalog
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
World Ocean Atlas
OpenL4Data productOcean models
Gridded ocean temperature, salinity and other climatological fields. These are climatologies, not current forecasts or live observations.
Official public product directory
Category
Models and forecasts
Update cadence
—
Latency
—
Archive
2026 – present
Instruments
Product-specific measurements or analyses
Sources
Official public product directory
Formats
Provider-native
Pricing
Free
Licence
U.S. Government Public Domain
IRI
terrafabric.world/id/collection/noaa-woa
Access
Open data, retrieved directly from the source under its licence.
Access endpoints
- httpshttps://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/world-ocean-atlasCatalog entry reviewed 2026-09-29; start denotes catalog inclusion, not archive inception. Bounding box is nominal scope, not survey coverage. Follow source inventories, terms and formats. Discovery only; no live footprint adapter is supplied for this collection.
Licence
U.S. Government Public Domain
No restrictions on use; citation requested.
open: trueattribution: falsecommercial use: true
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