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🔎 Finding Data in ERDDAP

🌐 Accessing CanWIN's ERDDAP

You can access ERDDAP in three ways:

  1. 🔗 Go directly to the CanWIN ERDDAP home page
  2. 🧭 From the CanWIN site main menu: Portals → CanWIN ERDDAP
  3. ⚡ From the Quick Links on the CanWIN home page

ERDDAP Quick Link

🔍 Finding Data in ERDDAP

From the ERDDAP home page, you can search for datasets in three ways:

  • Full Text Search → Enter keywords from dataset names, IDs, or metadata.
  • Advanced Search → Filter by keywords, metadata categories, time, and location.
  • ⏱️ Time ranges must use YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ format.
  • View All Datasets → Click View a List of All # Datasets to see everything available.

ERDDAP Searches

Tip

Use Advanced Search when you need precise filtering by time or location.

📥 Downloading Data in ERDDAP

Once you’ve found your dataset, there are two main ways to download:

📊 Tabular Data

  1. Click data under TableDAP Data.
    Tabular Data in ERDDAP

  2. Use the TableDAP Data Access Form to:

  3. Filter variables

  4. Choose your output format (csv, tsv, json, nc, etc.)
  5. Click Submit to download

Download Data from ERDDAP

📂 Source Data Files

  1. Click files under Source Data Files.
    Access Source Files

  2. Select the file link to download directly.
    Download Source File

🚀 Quick Start Workflow

  1. 🔍 Search → Use full text, advanced filters, or view all datasets
  2. 📂 Select → Choose tabular or source file access
  3. ⬇️ Download → Export in your preferred format

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ERDDAP supports both human‑friendly browsing and machine‑friendly APIs, making it ideal for researchers and developers.