Data Access Form

Dataset Title:	British Antartica Survey Webcams
Institution:	British Antartica Survey (Dataset ID: British_Antartica_Survey_webcams)
Information:	Summary \| License \| FGDC \| ISO 19115 \| Metadata \| Background \| Subset \| Make a graph

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Variable

Optional
Constraint #1

Optional
Constraint #2

Minimum

or a List of Values

Maximum

PlatformCode

Owner (Owner1)

"British Antartica ..."

latitude (degrees_north)

-67.57

78.925

longitude (degrees_east)

-68.13333

11.92222

time (Column#4, UTC)

2015-05-19T09:05:08Z

2025-10-28T10:01:12Z

Link

"https://data.npola..."

"https://legacy.bas..."

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The Dataset Attribute Structure (.das) for this Dataset

Attributes {
 s {
  PlatformCode {
    String long_name "PlatformCode";
  }
  Owner {
    String long_name "Owner1";
  }
  latitude {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Lat";
    Float64 actual_range -67.57, 78.925;
    String axis "Y";
    String ioos_category "Location";
    String long_name "Latitude";
    String standard_name "latitude";
    String units "degrees_north";
  }
  longitude {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Lon";
    Float32 actual_range -68.13333, 11.92222;
    String axis "X";
    String ioos_category "Location";
    String long_name "Longitude";
    String standard_name "longitude";
    String units "degrees_east";
  }
  time {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Time";
    Float64 actual_range 1.432026308e+9, 1.761645672e+9;
    String axis "T";
    String ioos_category "Time";
    String long_name "Column#4";
    String source_name "Column#4";
    String standard_name "time";
    String time_origin "01-JAN-1970 00:00:00";
    String time_precision "1970-01-01T00:00:00Z";
    String units "seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z";
  }
  Link {
    String long_name "Link";
  }
 }
  NC_GLOBAL {
    String cdm_data_type "Other";
    String citation "These data were collected and made available by the SO-CHIC project and the programs that contribute to it";
    String Conventions "COARDS, CF-1.6, ACDD-1.3";
    String creator_name "British Antartica Survey";
    String creator_url "https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/our-data/images/webcams/";
    Float64 Easternmost_Easting 11.92222;
    Float64 geospatial_lat_max 78.925;
    Float64 geospatial_lat_min -67.57;
    String geospatial_lat_units "degrees_north";
    Float64 geospatial_lon_max 11.92222;
    Float64 geospatial_lon_min -68.13333;
    String geospatial_lon_units "degrees_east";
    String history 
"2025-10-30T05:20:04Z (local files)
2025-10-30T05:20:04Z https://er1.s4oceanice.eu/erddap/tabledap/British_Antartica_Survey_webcams.html";
    String infoUrl "https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/our-data/images/webcams/";
    String institution "British Antartica Survey";
    String keywords "antartica, british, column, Column_0, Column_1, Column_2, Column_3, Column_5, data, survey, time, webcams";
    String license "CC-BY4.0";
    Float64 Northernmost_Northing 78.925;
    String sourceUrl "(local files)";
    Float64 Southernmost_Northing -67.57;
    String standard_name_vocabulary "CF Standard Name Table v55";
    String subsetVariables "PlatformCode";
    String summary "British Antartica Survey - Dataset of fixed  webcams in Antarctica";
    String testOutOfDate "now-1day";
    String time_coverage_end "2025-10-28T10:01:12Z";
    String time_coverage_start "2015-05-19T09:05:08Z";
    String title "British Antartica Survey Webcams";
    Float64 Westernmost_Easting -68.13333;
  }
}

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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.

(easy) You can get data by using the dataset's Data Access Form or Subset form. They make the URL for you.
(easy) You can make a graph or map by using the dataset's Make A Graph form. It makes the URL for you.
(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.