Vortex Big Data Server at Plymouth Marine Laboratory
This is a PML Remote Sensing Group cluster server
You will need to know the service sub-URL to access the available services, e.g. /thredds
THREDDS
The big data cluster offers the following access options to the datasets:
OPeNDAP - View and select variables contained with the dataset, contrain and export selected data in a variety of formwats
HTTP - download complete netCDF files directly
WCS - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Coverage Service (WCS) for web-based retrieval of coverages – that is, digital geospatial information representing space/time-varying phenomena
WMS - The OGC Web Map Service (WMS) is a standard protocol for serving georeferenced map images over the Internet that are generated by a map server.
NcML - NetCDF Markup Language (NcML) is an XML represenation of netCDF metadata. In this instance, it's a NcML-2.2 implemented by a netCDF Java Library
UDDC - an evaluation of how well the metadata contained in the dataset conforms to the NetCDF Attribute Convention for Data Discovery (NACDD)
ISO - an ISO 19115 metadata representation of the dataset