Ocean Data View User’s Guide Version 4.7.7 July 12, 2016 Version 4.7.7 ii ODV User’s Guide Acknowledgements: Many users have provided comments, suggestions and bug reports and thereby helped to make ODV a stable and useful product. Jean-Marie Beckers from the University of Liege has assisted in integrating the gridding software DIVA into ODV. Stephan Heckendorff and Michael Menzel have contributed significantly to the ODV code. This includes porting the import routines to ODV4, implementing the SDN file aggregation tool, creating the xview functionality as well as adding support for ESRI shapefiles. Financial support from the European Union Seventh Frame- work Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n° 283607, SeaDataNet2, 211384, EPOCA, and 264879, CarboChange is gratefully acknowledged. iii ODV User’s Guide License Agreement By downloading or using this Software, you agree to be bound by the following legal agreement between you and the Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). If you do not agree to the terms of this Agreement, do not download or use the Software. 1. SCIENTIFIC USE AND TEACHING Ocean Data View can be used free of charge for non-commercial, non-military research and teaching purposes. If you use the software for your scientific work, please cite Ocean Data View in your publications as follows: Schlitzer, R., Ocean Data View, http://odv.awi.de, 2016. 2. COMMERCIAL AND MILITARY USE For the use of Ocean Data View or any of its components for commercial or military applications and products, a special, written software license is needed. 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E-mail: [email protected] i Version 4.7.7 Contents 1 GENERAL OVERVIEW .......................................................................................................... 1 1.1 EASE OF USE ......................................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 DENSE DATA FORMAT ........................................................................................................................ 2 1.3 EXTENSIBILITY ..................................................................................................................................... 2 1.4 DERIVED VARIABLES ........................................................................................................................... 2 1.5 PLOT TYPES .......................................................................................................................................... 3 1.6 WINDOW SCOPES................................................................................................................................. 4 1.7 GRAPHICS OUTPUT .............................................................................................................................. 8 1.8 DATA STATISTICS ................................................................................................................................ 9 1.9 ESTIMATION AND AVERAGING ............................................................................................................ 9 1.10 NETCDF SUPPORT ....................................................................................................................... 10 2 FIRST STEPS ....................................................................................................................... 11 2.1 INSTALLING OCEAN DATA VIEW ..................................................................................................... 11 2.2 RUNNING OCEAN DATA VIEW ......................................................................................................... 11 2.3 GETTING HELP .................................................................................................................................. 13 2.4 APPLICATION WINDOW ................................................................................................................... 13 2.5 MENU BAR ......................................................................................................................................... 15 2.6 METADATA AND DATA LIST WINDOWS ......................................................................................... 15 2.7 GRAPHICS CANVAS ............................................................................................................................ 16 2.8 POPUP MENUS .................................................................................................................................. 16 2.9 STATUS BAR ...................................................................................................................................... 18 2.10 CURRENT STATION AND SAMPLE ................................................................................................ 19 2.11 MAP AND DATA WINDOW DRAWING ......................................................................................... 20 2.12 SETTINGS ....................................................................................................................................... 20 3 ODV COLLECTIONS ........................................................................................................... 23 3.1 DATA MODEL .................................................................................................................................... 24 3.2 EXAMPLE COLLECTION TYPES ......................................................................................................... 27 3.3 CREATING COLLECTIONS .................................................................................................................. 30 3.4 COLLECTION FILES ........................................................................................................................... 35 3.5 PLATFORM INDEPENDENCE ............................................................................................................. 38 4 IMPORTING DATA ............................................................................................................ 39 4.1 ODV SPREADSHEET FILES ............................................................................................................... 41 4.2 SDN SPREADSHEET AND NETCDF FILES....................................................................................... 42 4.3 WORLD OCEAN DATABASE DATA ................................................................................................... 45 4.4 ARGO FLOAT DATA ......................................................................................................................... 46 4.5 GTSPP – GLOBAL TEMPERATURE-SALINITY PROFILE PROGRAM.............................................. 47 4.6 WOCE HYDROGRAPHIC DATA ........................................................................................................ 49 4.7 MEDATLAS FORMAT DATA .............................................................................................................. 50 4.8 SEA-BIRD CNV FILES ...................................................................................................................... 52 4.9 ASSOCIATE META-VARIABLES DIALOG........................................................................................... 54 4.10 IMPORT OPTIONS DIALOG............................................................................................................ 55 ii ODV User’s Guide 4.11 GENERATING FILE LISTS .............................................................................................................. 59 5 EXPORTING DATA ............................................................................................................. 61 5.1 SPREADSHEET FILES ........................................................................................................................ 61 5.2 SDN AGGREGATED ODV COLLECTION .......................................................................................... 62 5.3 NETCDF FILES ................................................................................................................................. 62 5.4 WHP EXCHANGE FORMAT EXPORT ..............................................................................................