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.
• STAC - SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs provide a standard way to present metadata along side direct access links. This is avaliable for some of our larger datasets.

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
• ESA CCI Open data portal
• CCI OpenSearch (Standarch OpenSearch XML interface to CCI data)

Data format checkers

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

• CSV checker
• NASA-Ames checker