Data Access Form

Dataset Title:	Newfoundland and Labrador climate index
Institution:	DFO-MPO, MUN (Dataset ID: NL_Climate_Index)
Information:	Summary \| License \| Metadata \| Background \| Subset \| Files \| Make a graph

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Variable

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Constraint #1

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Constraint #2

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or a List of Values

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dataset

year

climate_index

-1.37

1.6

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The Dataset Attribute Structure (.das) for this Dataset

Attributes {
 s {
  dataset {
    Int16 _FillValue 32767;
    Int16 actual_range 2019, 2021;
    String ioos_category "Other";
    String long_name "Dataset";
  }
  year {
    Int16 _FillValue 32767;
    Int16 actual_range 1950, 2021;
    String ioos_category "Time";
    String long_name "Year";
  }
  climate_index {
    Float32 _FillValue NaN;
    Float32 actual_range -1.37, 1.6;
    String ioos_category "Other";
    String long_name "Climate Index";
  }
 }
  NC_GLOBAL {
    String cdm_data_type "Other";
    String Conventions "COARDS, CF-1.6, ACDD-1.3";
    String creator_email "frederic.cyr@dfo-mpo.gc.ca";
    String creator_name "DFO-MPO, MUN";
    String creator_type "institution";
    String creator_url "https://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/";
    String history 
"2025-11-20T10:25:52Z (local files)
2025-11-20T10:25:52Z https://cioosatlantic.ca/erddap/tabledap/NL_Climate_Index.html";
    String infoUrl "https://doi.org/10.20383/101.0301";
    String institution "DFO-MPO, MUN";
    String keywords "atlantic, climate, Climate_index, data, department, dfo, dfo-mpo, fisheries, index, labrador, mpo, mun, nao, newfoundland, north, ocean, oceans, oscillation, sea, sst, surface, temperature, time, year";
    String license "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/";
    String sourceUrl "(local files)";
    String standard_name_vocabulary "CF Standard Name Table v70";
    String subsetVariables "dataset,year";
    String summary "The Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) climate index aims to describe the environmental conditions on the NL shelf and in the Northwest Atlantic as a whole. It consists of annual normalized anomalies of 10 subindices with equal contribution: Winter North Atlantic Oscillation, air temperature, sea ice, icebergs, sea surface temperature, vertically-averaged temperature and salinity at Station~27, cold intermediate layer (CIL) core temperature at Station~27, CIL area on 3 hydrographic sections and bottom temperature on the NL shelf. This index runs from 1951 to 2019 and will be updated annually. Data associated with Cyr, F. and Galbraith, P. S.: A climate index for the Newfoundland and Labrador shelf, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 1807-1828, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1807-2021, 2021.";
    String title "Newfoundland and Labrador climate index";
  }
}

Using tabledap to Request Data and Graphs from Tabular Datasets

tabledap lets you request a data subset, a graph, or a map from a tabular dataset (for example, buoy data), via a specially formed URL. tabledap uses the OPeNDAP (external link)

Data Access Protocol (DAP) (external link)

and its selection constraints (external link)

The URL specifies what you want: the dataset, a description of the graph or the subset of the data, and the file type for the response.

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(not hard) You can bypass the forms and get the data or make a graph or map by generating the URL by hand or with a computer program or script.

Tabledap request URLs must be in the form
https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/tabledap/datasetID.fileType{?query}
For example,
https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/tabledap/pmelTaoDySst.htmlTable?longitude,latitude,time,station,wmo_platform_code,T_25&time>=2015-05-23T12:00:00Z&time<=2015-05-31T12:00:00Z
Thus, the query is often a comma-separated list of desired variable names, followed by a collection of constraints (e.g., variable<value), each preceded by '&' (which is interpreted as "AND").

For details, see the tabledap Documentation.