ERDDAP

"ERDDAP is a data server that gives you a simple, consistent way to download subsets of gridded and tabular scientific datasets in common file formats and make graphs and maps.

Different scientific communities have developed different types of data servers, for example, OPeNDAP, WCS, SOS, OBIS, and countless custom web pages with forms. Each is great on its own. Without ERDDAP, it is difficult to get data from different types of servers:

• Different data servers make you format your data request in different ways.
• Different data servers return data in different formats, usually not the common file format that you want.
• Different datasets use different formats for time data, so the results are hard to compare.

ERDDAP unifies the different types of data servers so you have a consistent way to get the data you want, in the format you want.
 

ERDDAP acts as a middleman between you and various remote data servers.
When you request data from ERDDAP, ERDDAP reformats the request into the format required by the remote server, sends the request to the remote server, gets the data, reformats the data into the format that you requested, and sends the data to you. You no longer have to go to different data servers to get data from different datasets.
 

ERDDAP offers an easy-to-use, consistent way to request data: via the OPeNDAP standard.
Many datasets can also be accessed via the Web Map Service (WMS).
 

ERDDAP returns data in the common file format of your choice.
ERDDAP offers all data as .html table, ESRI .asc and .csv, Google Earth .kml, OPeNDAP binary, .mat, .nc, ODV .txt, .csv, .tsv, .json, and .xhtml. So you no longer have to waste time and effort reformatting data.
 

ERDDAP can also return a .png or .pdf image with a customized graph or map.
 

ERDDAP standardizes the dates+times in the results.
Data from other data servers is hard to compare because the dates+times often are expressed in different formats.  ERDDAP always uses the Zulu (UTC, GMT) time zone to remove the difficulties of working with different time zones and standard time vs. daylight saving time.

 ERDDAP has web pages (for humans with browsers) and RESTful web services (for computer programs).
You can bypass ERDDAP's web pages and use ERDDAP's RESTful web services (for example, for searching for datasets, for downloading data, for making maps) directly from any computer program (for example, Matlab, R, or a program that you write) and even from web pages (via HTML image tags or JavaScript).

https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/index.html

Related Software

docker-erddap - A feature full Tomcat (SSL over APR, etc.) running ERDDAP 

Quickstart

$ docker run \
    -d \
    -p 80:8080 \
    -p 443:8443 \
    axiom/docker-erddap

Production

$ docker run \
    -d \
    -p 80:8080 \
    -p 443:8443 \
    -v /path/to/your/ssl.crt:/opt/tomcat/conf/ssl.crt \
    -v /path/to/your/ssl.key:/opt/tomcat/conf/ssl.key \
    -v /path/to/your/tomcat-users.xml:/opt/tomcat/conf/tomcat-users.xml \
    -v /path/to/your/erddap/content:/opt/tomcat/content/erddap \
    -v /path/to/your/erddap/bigParentDirectory:/erddapData \
    --name erddap \
    axiom/docker-erddap

https://github.com/axiom-data-science/docker-erddap

erddap-management - A repository of python scripts and services to assist in managing ERDDAP instances remotely.

https://github.com/asascience-open/erddap-management 

rerddap -  A general purpose R client for working with ERDDAP servers.

https://ropensci.org/tutorials/rerddap_tutorial.html