General Download Services

• OPeNDAP - Can be used for browsing the archive file system and interactive downloads. It’s also a scriptable interface (API) to the archive over http, allowing remote subsetting within IDL, Matlab. Python etc.
• FTP  - The File Transfer Protocol is very common and is a good interface if you need to automate your data downloads.
• JASMIN file system - JAMSIN users should consult the JASMIN documentation on direct CEDA Archive access and appropriate data transfer mechanisms

  Metadata Services

• CEDA Catalogue - Browsing information about the datasets in the archive.
• CSW Programatically interrogating the CEDA Catalogue using Catalogue Service for the Web - service API. You can also use this service to harvest the metadata using the OAI-PMH protocol.

Specific data set services

Tools to subset or aggregate data before downloading are available for some data. These are linked to from the catalogue page for that dataset.

• Web Processing Service (WPS)
• Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF)
• Satellite Data Finder (Sentinel and Landsat missions currently)
• Flight Finder (airborne data)
• Met Office MIDAS stations search
• CORRAL catalogue

Data format checkers

When producing data you can use these tools to work out it’s formated correctly.

• CSV checker
• NASA-Ames checker