Ocean Data View Reiner Schlitzer Alfred Wegener Institute

Ocean Data View Reiner Schlitzer Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

Ocean Data View Software for easy access, interactive analysis and visualization of profile, time-series, trajectory or general sequence data. • Available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and UNIX. • Supports native ODV collection format and net. CDF. • Reads and imports many oceanographic data formats, (e. g. , WOD, ARGO, GTSPP, WOCE, Sea. Data. Net, Med. Atlas, Sea-Bird…) ODV Collection Format • optimized for variable length profiles/sequences (original data or gridded data products) • binary format providing dense storage and fast data access • support for data quality flags • expandable • platform-independent • can be used for many different data types

Example Data Collections

12, 470 stations 367, 023 samples

2383 stations 46, 124 samples

Supported Data Types

Profiles Ocean Atmosphere Ice Sediments, Soil, …

Timeseries Ocean Atmosphere Ice etc. …

Trajectories Underway Ship Data Float Trajectories AUV, ROV, Glider or Towed Instrument

Oceanography - WOCE

Other – River Discharge Vorosmarty, Fekete, and Tucker (1018 stations)

Other – Satellite Data (net. CDF)

Data Window Types

STATION

SCATTER

SECTION

SURFACE

Special Features

Overlays

Vector Plots

Patches

Derived Variables

Data Quality Control • easy spotting and identification of outliers or offsets • painless editing of data value and quality flag • logging of all value or flag modifications • automatic range checks and manual or automatic editing

Data Quality Control Subsampling and flexible use of value ranges full sample set sample sub-set

Gazetteers

Built-in Importers: • U. S. NODC World Ocean Database • GTSPP net. CDF 4 files • ARGO profile and trajectory data • MEDAR/MEDATLAS data • WOCE CTD and bottle data • Sea-Bird. cnv files • Various spreadsheet file formats

Spreadsheet Data Files

ODV 4 – Application Window

ODV Website: http: //odv. awi. de