The NERC Data Discovery Service allows you to find data resources held within the NERC DataGrid (NDG) catalogue. The catalogue makes data discovery easier as it connects data held in managed archives and other initiatives.
It is populated with 'discovery' metadata (information about data sets) harvested on a regular basis from the NERC Data Centres and other providers in the UK and worldwide.
Choose one or more search categories to query the catalogue and return data sets of interest. Links to further information and/or data access are provided in the responses.
Free text search looks through the entire database of discovery documents, or it can be limited to the Author (dataset creator), or Parameter fields
Note that it is possible to get a document returned which apparently does not include the search term; this can occur when the html view does not reflect the entire document content. The document pages include links to fuller and more original versions in viewable XML if you suspect this is occurring and wish to track down obscure matches.
You can find datasets which have data within a specific time range by using the temporal coverage
Your search can be limited to NERC data centres alone
The default search is a global search. You can select a limited geospatial region using either the text boxes or the map. The default is to limit to datasets which overlap with a search region, but you can also aim to find only the datasets within the search region, or which don't overlap with the search region too.
Or at least that's what should happen. Right now (December 3, 2007) only "overlaps" works!
