MARINE OBSERVATION SOURCE · S030
PANGAEA
Discover marine observations available through PANGAEA, including parameters, platforms, spatial and temporal coverage, metadata, and access methods.
- Operator
- Alfred Wegener Institute / MARUM
- Role
- Research data repository
- Platforms
- Research cruises; stations; moorings; cores; campaigns
- Observed variables
- Physical oceanography; chemistry; biology; sediments; geology; paleo; multidisciplinary observations
- Spatial coverage
- Global; publication/project dependent
- Period
- Dataset-dependent
- Depth coverage
- Dataset-dependent; often explicit depth/elevation/event metadata
- QC and data mode
- Scientific QC by contributors + curated metadata
- Access method
- Search PANGAEA; download data using DOI with `?format=textfile`; retrieve ISO/DataCite/JSON-LD metadata by content negotiation
- Indexed download targets
- 11
Canonical parameters
- Absolute salinity
absolute_salinity - Air temperature
air_temperature - Ammonium
ammonium - Conservative temperature
conservative_temperature - Potential density
potential_density - Precipitation
precipitation - Relative humidity
relative_humidity - Observation depth
sample_depth - Sea-water density
sea_water_density - Wind direction
wind_direction_from - Wind speed
wind_speed
Discovery and access
Best 'long-tail' repository for observations not captured by standardized global networks.