The ICES Foundation supports Open Science, which embraces a combination of Open Data Files, Open Source Code, Open Reference Hardware and Open Access Publications. The Open Data Files listed below are only part of an increasing global inventory of openly available data:
Good reasons for Open Data:
Everything is a remix
Big data for the common good
Summary of Open Data usage
World population estimated 2015
How to make Open Science work
Cracking open the scientific process
Climate change information and data
The State of Open Data Report 2018
Open data makes disaster risk visible
Bringing relevant data closer to scientists
Do you expect me to just give away my data?
Open Data for resilience initiative - field guide
How to avoid drowning in a sea of climate data
Open Earth observation data more accessible
On the quality and cost of scientific publication
Open Data - what's next in policy and practice?
'Liquid Data' seen as engine to economic growth
Benefits of the free and open Landsat data policy
Grant will advance standards promoting open, high-quality data
The brokering approach to for Earth Science cyberinfrastructure
A new global database of meteorological drought events from 1951 to 2016
The FAIR guiding principles for scientific data management and stewardship
New web-based model for sharing research datasets could have huge benefits
Global Open Data:
EarthScope
Global Data Lab
Migration Data Portal
Google public data explorer
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Data Observation Network for Earth (Dataone)
GEO Portal entry point to access remote sensing, geospatial static and in-situ data, information GEO Portal
Disaster Open Data:
GDACS
International disaster database EM-DAT
Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)
Economic Open Data:
OECD library
World Bank data
World Bank knowledge portal
World economic vulnerability monitor
IEA policies and measures databases
USAID International Data and Economic Analysis (IDEA)
World Bank and Google announce map maker collaboration
Earth Science Open Data:
Open Aerial Map
Open topography
OpenGeoScience
Open Topography
Earth system science data
Database of volcanic unrest
Integrated Earth Data Applications
WHONDRS crowdsourced science
Numerical Terradynamics Simulation Group
Animation of the Earth's gravity field for GFZ 96
Integrated geoscience databanks for interactive analysis and visualization
Global mineral database on 30sec resolution of potentially dust productive soils
A long term Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) data set for environmental studies
Oceanic Open Data:
ARGO Float Data
OneOcean Corporation
General bathymetric chart of the oceans
GEBCO General BathymetricChart of the Oceans
Oxygen Deficient Zones (ODZs) in the Eastern tropical and subtropical Pacific Ocean .
Weather/Climate Open Data:
GEOSS portal
Weather Spark
IRI Data Library
Climate Explorer
WMO Satellite Status
Polar Data Catalogue
National radiation maps
IRI Climate Data Library
2007 IPCC Model Ouput
Climate Code Foundation
Climate Impacts - GRASP
CAIT Climate Data Explorer
Solar radiation Data (SoDa)
IPCC data distribution centre
World Data Centre for Climate
Video tutorial on GEOSS portal
World Bank climate change data
The GEOSS Common Infrastructure
Berkeley Earth surface temperature
UNDP climate change country profiles
UNFCCC greenhouse gas inventory data
WMO publishes global update of climate datasets
World temperature records available via Google Earth
Global terrestrial network - permafrost (GTN-P) database
Google Earth interface for CRUTEM4 land temperature data
Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR)
Agriculture & Vegetation Open Data:
CSTARS
CCAFS-CGIAR open data sets
TRY database of plant materials
Astronomical Open Data:
Prediccs
Space weather
The solar interior
Planck legacy archive
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey
SoDa: time series of solar radiation data
International charter space & major disasters
Space-based information for crowdsource mapping
SDSS: working hard to improve inclusion in astronomy
Open Data within Europe:
EU Open Data:
PanGEO
INSPIRE Geoportal
ECMWF open data sets
EUMETSAT data access via Internet
EU JRC Scientific & Technical Reference
EU Joint Research Centre opens up its data stores
ESA Open Data:
Coastcolour
Global Land Cover 2000
ESA CryoSat-2 Data Set
Copernicus Open Access Hub
ESA Planetary Science Archive
European Centre for Space Records
Free access to Copernicus Sentinel satellite data
CryoSat operational monitoring - DEM models - Antarctica
Over 30 years of global soil moisture observations available for climate applications
Developing a large scale dataset for flood fatalities for territores in the Euro-Medterranean region, FFEM-DB
UK Open Data:
East Anglia CRU data
UK Ordnance Survey Linked Data
UK Met Office Hadley Centre observations datasets
UK: free satellite data to help tackle public sector challenges
Open Data within the USA:
Data.gov Data USA
US Geospatial Platform
US climate data Initiative
All US Government Geo Data
Caltec earthquake information
Social Vulnerability Index for the US
Civic Commons - Open Data Policies
US Congress opens floodgates with data law
US Senate passes OPEN Government Data Act
Open Federal Data is now the law of the land in the US
Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD)
Researchers are preparing for Trump to delete US Government science from the web
US 'Opportunity Project' utilizing open data to build stronger ladders of opportunity for all
NOAA Open Data:
IBTrACS
ICESat-2
Climate data
GOSIC Portal
Snow and Ice
PERSIANN-CDR
World Magnetic Model
NOAA Ocean NOMADS
Significant event Imagery
NOAA metadata standards
Space weather prediction center
9 daily global satellite image files
NOAA Science on a Sphere SOS
National Geophysical data center
US Hurricane first responder data
NOAA Ozone Depleting Gas Index
Data sets of continental waterheds and river networks
National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
NOAA coral reef watch homepage and near-real-time product portal
International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS)
POES Satellite Imagery - Atlantic POES Satellite Imagery - Pacific
SLIDER - every pixel of GOES-17 at your fingertips. GOES Satellite Imagery
Precipitation Clouds Winds Aerosols Radiation Budget Vegetation
Sea-surface Height Sea-surface Temperatures National Oceanic Data Center
GFDL Data Portal GFDL Ocean Data Assimiliation Environmental Visualization Lab
USGS Open Data:
Earthscope
Landsat data and images
Seamless data warehouse
Hazards data distribution system
Seismicity of the Earth 1900~2007
US vegetation drought response index
Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World
Latest Earthquakes in the World - Past 7 days
Enhanced real-time earthquake information now online
USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
PAGER - Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response
Spatial Hazard Events and Losses Database for the US (SHELDUS)
NASA Open Data:
ECCO2
OPEN NEX
Wavelength
Eye on Earth
DREAM data set
NASA Worldview
Earth Science Data
Solar Dynamics Observatory
Global hydrology data center
NASA Earth Exchange (NEX)
Earth science data discovery tool
The Planetary Data System (PDS)
Atmosperic science research portal
Air quality for the top 195 world cities
NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database NED
Gridded Population of the World (GPW),v4
CMS - the NASA Carbon Monitoring System
The Regional Planetary Image Facilities (RPIFs)
Satellite data available free on Amazon AWS cloud
The National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC)
Daily views of Earth available on new NASA website
NASA and FAO launch next-generation geospatial tool
NASA, Japan make ASTER Earth data available at no cost
ARIA (Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis) for natural hazards
Characterizing extremes for the recent past over the Americas
NCAR Open Data:
Research Data Archive (RDA)
NCAR's RAP Real-time Weather Data
NRL Open Data:
US Naval Oceanography Portal
Total precipitable water (regional and global)
Open Data within MesoAmerica:
SERVIR
Canadian Open Data:
Canada's water InfoStream
Australian Open Data:
IMOS (Australia's Integrated Marine Observing System)
Rothamsted Archive
ASEAN Open Data:
The data behind the search for MH370
MH370 search reveals hidden undersea world
Philippines Open Data Law for climate resilience and DRR
Open Indices and Indicators:
USGCRP Indicators catalog