SMHI has been appointed by The Swedish Environment Protection Agency to be the national, and regional data host for marine physical, biological and chemical data. The SODC store and supplies environment monitoring data collected within the framework of The Swedish Environment Protection Agency.
Swedish EPA, National datahosts
All data and metadata that are made available by the Swedish EPA and the national datahost SMHI at this website are public and free to use by anyone.
The following datasets are available at the Swedish Oceanographic Data Centre |
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| Data | Description | Metadata | Download data |
| Hydrographic data | Marine physical and chemical data from national and regional monitoring. Low resolution CTD data. |
Map | Map |
| Hydrographic data | Marine physical and chemical data. High resolution CTD data, discontinued sampling stations & mapping stations. |
Map | Order data |
| Hydrographic data | BALTEX, high resolution CTD data and sea level data. | Website | Order data |
| Depth data | Hypsographs, cross-sections and depth profiles from Swedish coastal areas. |
Website  |
Website |
| Marine biological data | Zooplankton, phytoplankton, bacterioplankton zoobentos, phytobentos, seal, Monoporeia affinis, sedimentation, primary production, chlorophyll. Until the database below is fully operational all data from the former datahost will be available for download here. |
Download data |
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| Marine biological data | Database with marine biological monitoring data (under development) |
Database content |
Download data |
| Taxon list | List of taxa used within SwedODC | Species list (.xls) (.skv) | |
| Phytoplankton | Database with species information | Website | |
Data that are downloaded from this website have different owners. The owner is usually the part that has finaced the monitoring. The copyright belongs to the data owner. Any user of data from this website should acknowledge the data owner and refere to the SMHI database SHARK (Svenskt HavsARKiv)
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National data are reported to HELCOM, ICES och OSPAR among others. Some regional data are reported to EEA.
If you have any questions regarding data queries or access to data please contact:
shark@smhi.se
To download other European oceanographic data, please visit SeaDataNet
SMHI is the largest Swedish producer of physical and chemical oceanographic data but also a large producer of marine biological data.