| Observation Type | Platform / Sensor | Parameters | Mode of reception | Availability | Format of the data | Accessibility |
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| In-situ | Drifting Buoy | Atmospheric Pressure, SST, Ocean Currents | Real-time | 1991 - till date | ASCII / netCDF / HDF / Binary | Public Access with visualisation, download options |
| Moored Buoy | Atmospheric Pressure, Atmospheric Temperature, Humidity, Wind Parameters, Currents, SST, Conductivity, Wave parameters, Rainfall, Net Radiation, Irradiance. Profiles of Temperature, Salinity up to 500 m and Currents up to 100m | Real-time | 1997 - till date | Public Access with only visualisation option. No download option. |
| XBT/XCTD | Temperature profiles | Delayed mode | 1990 - till date | Public Access with visualisation option. No download option. |
| Current Meter Array | Current Vector data | Delayed mode | 2000 - 2009 | Public Access with visualization, download options. |
| Argo Floats | Temperature and Salinity Profiles | Real-time | 2000 - till date | Public Access with visualisation, download facilities for open Ocean data. |
| Automatic Weather Station onboard Research Vessels | Met-Ocean parameters | Real-time | 2009 - till date | Public Access with visualisation option. No download option. |
| Wave Rider Buoy | Wave parameters | Real-time | 2008 - till date | Public Access with visualisation option. No download option. |
| Ship mounted Wave Height Meter | Wave parameters | Real-time | 2011 - till date (ORV Sagar Nidhi) | |
| HF Radar | Current Vector | Real-time | 2008 - till date | Registered access through Website |
| Coastal ACDP | Current Vector | Delayed mode | 2008 -till date | |
| Tsunami Buoy | Sea level data | Real-time | 2011 - till date | Tsunami Early Warning Centre Website Visualization. No download facility |
| Tide Guages | Sea level data | Real-time | 2007 - till date | |
| Seismic | Earth Quake | Real-time | 2007 - till date | Tsunami Early Warning Centre Website Visualization. No download facility |
| BPR | Sea level data | Real-time | 2007 - till date | Tsunami Early Warning Centre Website Visualization. No download facility |
| SATCORE | Marine Optics & met-ocean parameters | Delayed mode | 2008 - 2017 | |
| COMAPS | Bio-Geo-Chemical-Physical parameters | Delayed mode | 1992 onwards from 83 stations | |
| ICMAM 10th Plan Data | Bio-Geo-Chemical-Physical parameters | Delayed mode | 2002 - 2007 | |
| CTCZ | Upper Air Data, Meteorological data, Oceanographic data | Delayed mode | 2007 - 2013 | Available for PI's of CTCZ programme |
| OMM | uCTD,ADCP,Ship AWS, IISc AWS, INCOIS AWS, TSG, Ship CTD, Auto Sal, Aethalometer, Dust track, FRRF, IOP, Microstructure Profiler, Microtops, Radiometer, Radiosonde, xbt, xctd, ASIMET, Lagrangian float, ADU800, IITB CTD, Multibeam, Singlebeam | Delayed mode | 2013 - 2018 | |
| FORV Sagar Sampada | Cruise Data (Cr. No. 201 to 320) | Delayed mode | 2001-2013 | |
| MEDAS | CTD, DO, pH, Nutrients, DIC, DOC, POC and phytoplankton pigments. | Delayed mode | 22-Dec-2017 - 31-Jan-2019 | Restricted; as per DoS guidelines (Data being in EEZ) |
| Remote Sensing | AVHRR - NOAA | AVHRR Raw Data | Real-time | 1986 - till date | HDF/ netCDF/ GeoTIFF/ JPEG/ ASCII | Non-Sensitive |
| AVHRR -SST Archives | SST | Real-time | 2001 - till date | Non-Sensitive |
| OCM - 1 | Chlorophyll | - | 2000 - 2006 | Restricted; as per DoS guidelines |
| MODIS | Chlorophyll | Real-time | 2007 - till date | |
| OCM-2 | Chlorophyll | Real-time | 2011 - till date | Restricted; as per DoS guidelines |
| VIIRS | Chlorophyll and SST | Real-time | April 2016-till date | Non-Sensitive |
| Bloom indices | Bloom | Delayed mode | Mar 2010 - till date | |
| CDOM Index | CDOM | Delayed mode | Mar 2010 - till date | |
| Model and Analysis | Wave Watch III | Wave parameters | Near Real-time mode | 2010 - till date | netCDF/ HDF/ JPEG/ GIFF | Recent data is available on web; Remaining archived |
| MIKE | Wave parameters | Near Real-time mode | 2007 - till date | |
| ROMS | SST, MLD, D20, Currents | Near Real-time mode | 2010 - till date | |
| PFZ | PFZ Advisories | Near Real-time mode | 2003 - till date | ASCII/JPEG | |
| AMSR-E data sets | Atmospheric Water Vapour, Cloud Liquid Water, Rain Rate, Sea Surface Temperature, Surface Wind Speed | Near Real-time mode | 2002 - 2011 | netCDF | Public Access with visualisation, download options |
| LAS Products | Argo derived Products | Argo value added products, Gridded product based on Kessler-McCreary methodology, Gridded product based on Variational Analysis methodology | -- | 2002 - 2013 | netCDF | |
| Argo derived Products | Argo SST weekly | -- | 2009 - 2010 | Public Access with visualisation, download options |
| ASCAT wind product | eastward wind speed, eastward wind stress, northward wind speed, northward wind stress, wind speed, wind stress | -- | 2007-2013 | Public Access with visualisation, download options |
| NIO-New Global Climatology | Temperature and Salinity | -- | -- | Public Access with visualisation, download options |
| NOAA High resolution SST (AVHRR only and AVHRR+AMSR) | Daily SST and anomalies | -- | 1982 - till date | Public Access with visualisation, download options |
| Ocean Reanalysis (GODAS-MOM) | SST, Near Real Time data (older than 5 days), QuikScat forced model output, Real Time data (Daily averaged), Daily SST anomalies | -- | 2012 - till date | Public Access with visualisation, download options |
| QuikSCAT data products | Vector of zonal wind speed and meridional wind speed, Vector of zonal wind stress and meridional wind stress, meridional wind speed component, meridional wind stress component, wind speed module, wind stress curl, wind stress magnitude, zonal wind speed component, zonal wind stress component | -- | 1999 - 2009 | Public Access with visualisation, download options |
| TMI Data sets | Atmospheric Water Vapour, Cloud Liquid Water, Rain Rate, Sea Surface Temperature, Surface Wind Speed using 11 Ghz channel, Surface Wind Speed using 37 Ghz channel | -- | 1997 - till date | Public Access with visualisation, download options |
| OCM-1 data sets | Chlorophyll | -- | Weekly composites | Public Access with visualisation, download options |
| INCOIS Ground station AVHRR data sets | Sea Surface Temperature | -- | 2004 to present | Public Access with visualisation, download options |
