Standards

WOUDC adheres to open standards which enable interoperability (discovery, access, visualization). Standards play an important role in World Meteorological Organization interoperability as part of the WMO Information System and are supported by numerous off the shelf open source or commercial tools.

Resource	Format/Encoding	Service/API
Discovery Metadata	ISO 19115 WMO Core Metadata Profile	OGC:CSW OAI-PMH OpenSearch
Station Metadata	OGC:GML WIGOS	OGC:WMS OGC:WFS
Instrument Metadata	OGC:GML WIGOS	OGC:WMS OGC:WFS
Observations	CSV GeoJSON OGC:GML WIGOS	OGC:WMS OGC:WFS

More information can be found on the Data Access page.