| ACT Sensors List | List of sensors developed by the Alliance for Coastal Technologies | | |
| Argo Instrument List | Instrument code list from Argo | | |
| Argo Parameters and quality control code lists | List of parameter and quality control codes from Argo | | |
| BODC (British Oceanographic Data Centre) Units | The BODC units table, consisting of all the units codes used in BODC parameter lists. | | |
| BODC Instruments List | List of instruments used by the British Oceanographic Data Centre | | |
| BOG CTD Bottle Data Field Names | MBARI's Biological Ocean Group (BOG) CTD Bottle Data Field Names | | |
| BOG CTD Profiling Data Field Names | MBARI's Biological Ocean Group (BOG) CTD Profiling Data Field Names | | |
| British Oceanographic Data Centre Parameter Discovery Vocabulary | The BODC Parameter Dictionary has been completely overhauled during 2004 and now consists of an integrated data markup and parameter discovery vocabularies. | | |
| British Oceanographic Data Centre Parameter Usage Vocabulary | The BODC Parameter Usage Vocabulary may be used as a tool to label a measurement with information on what it is and how it was obtained or to describe parameters (phenomena in GML terminology) in 'use' metadata. | | |
| BUFR Parameters | World Meteorological Organization's Binary Universal Form for the Representation of meteorological data (BUFR) parameter codes. | | |
| CDI Sea Search Sensor and Platform Vocabularies | Common Data Index vocabularies lists for the Sea-Search program. Vocabularies for platforms and sensors are included. | | |
| CF - Climate and Forecast Standard Names | Vocabulary for climate and forecast parameters | | |
| CMECS Habitat Classification System | Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard system describing the habitats of the estuaries, coasts and oceans of North America. | | |
| CoRIS Glossary of Terms | NOAA's Coral Reef Information System (CoRIS) glossary of coral reef-related terms | | |
| Data Dictionary from SEACOOS | The SEACOOS. standard names cover many categories/disciplines, with extensive detail about each name. | | |
| EPIC (NOAA, PMEL) Units | Example of units used in operational system (units are encoded in variable key, used in netCDF entries). | | |
| EUNIS Habitat Classification System | The European Nature Information System (EUNIS) habitat classification system covers all types of natural and artificial habitats, both aquatic and terrestrial, in Europe. | | |
| eXtensible Address Language | This is an XML standard for addresses. | | |
| GCMD Data Center Keywords | Global Change Master Directory Data Center keywords, contains short names (3 to 30 character acronyms separated by forward-slashes) and long names with locations. | | |
| GCMD Location Keywords | Global Change Master Directory list of Location Keywords, hierarchical format, no codes. | | |
| GCMD Platform Keywords | The Global Change Master Directory (GMCD) list of platform keywords, mainly satellites. | | |
| GCMD Project Keywords | Global Change Master Directory list of project keywords, short names (acronyms) and long names for each project. | | |
| GCMD Science Keywords | Global Change Master Directory list of Science Keywords in hierarchical order with no codes. | | |
| GCMD Sensors Vocabulary | The GCMD list of sensor types (described as a list of sensor keywords). | | |
| GEMET - GEneral Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus | Multilingual thesaurus that aims to define a core terminology for the environmental domain. | | |
