The Earth Model web service provides access to community-contributed Earth models hosted by the IRIS’s Earth Model Collaboration data product (EMC, http://ds.iris.edu/ds/products/emc-earthmodels/). There are five service query methods:

/modelinfo

Produces a list of available Earth models along with a short summary for each.

• Output format:
  • text (.txt, plain text)
  • JSON (.json, JavaScript Object Notation)

/model

Provides data for a model or a subset of a model via clipping and/or decimating.

• Output format:
  • netCDF (.nc, network Common Data Form)
  • GeoCSV (.csv, tabular text formatting for geoscience data)

/isosurface

Provides isosurface data for selected variable(s) from a selected Earth model.

• Output format:
  • netCDF (data)
  • GeoCSV (data)

/plane

Provides data from a model by intersecting the model with a plane.

• Output format:
  • netCDF (data)
  • GeoCSV (data)
  • PNG (image)

/line

Provides data from a model by intersecting the model with a vertical line.

• Output format:
  • netCDF (data)
  • GeoCSV (data)
  • PNG (image)