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Access Data by Category
To explore the wide variety of data stewarded by the National Centers for Environmental information, visit the links below.
Bathymetry & Global Relief
These data and products describe the elevation of the Earth's surface above and below the ocean.
Climate Monitoring & Extremes
These data and products describe the state of the U.S. and global climates and provide details on extremes such as droughts, tornadoes, and hurricanes.
Coastal & Regional
These data and products provide an array of ocean-related environmental, marine, and economic information for specific coastal and regional areas across the world.
Geomagnetism
These data and products describe Earth's magnetism with models of the geomagnetic field and provide support for global navigation and mineral exploration.
Interactive Maps
These products provide access to a variety of environmental data through online map applications that allow users to select and view data based on geographic parameters.
Land-Based Stations
These data and products provide access to ground-based observations, such as precise ground position, temperature, precipitation, and atmospheric pressure, from instruments at stations around the globe.
Marine Geophysics
These data and products describe the geophysics of sea floors and lake beds with information on gravity, magnetics, seismic reflection, water column sonar, and more.
Marine Surface
These data and products provide information on ocean features such as sea surface temperatures, winds, and waves.
Models
These online systems and products provide access to environmental data from climate, geomagnetic, and ocean modeling and prediction systems.
Natural Hazards
These data and products provide information on environmental hazards including tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, droughts, tornadoes, and hurricanes.
Ocean Climatologies
These data and products provide long-term information, analyses, and averages of ocean observations such as temperature and salinity.
Ocean Data
These products provide access to a variety of ocean observations including temperatures, salinity, heat content, and acidity as well as tsunami-related information.
Paleoclimatology
Derived from natural sources such as tree rings and ice cores, these data and product extend the archive of weather and climate information hundreds to millions of years.
Radar
These data and products provide information on precipitation and thunderstorms detected by radar networks as well as tools to visualize and examine the data.
Satellite
These data and products provide access to continuous global environmental observations from NOAA's array of satellites.
Space Weather
These data and products include ionospheric, magnetospheric, and solar measurements, products, and models.
Combined Bathymetry & Topography
Topography (Land Elevations)