Argo & Google Ocean

Argo & Google Earth/Ocean Background Aim: Design a product useful for Argonauts and for a larger public To be presented to Google when ready, for a potential addition in the  Google Ocean  content offer 2 main elements: Part I) Argo network status (the floats…) Part II) Ocean state as seen by Argo (the products …) All will be regrouped in a package and presented via a « tour » Oceanographers will be allowed to tell stories on the floats, ocean, climate, etc, in order to: « humanize » the Argo observing system promote Argo as a pilar of the climate warning system

Part I) is ready in beta version… Install Google Earth and/or upgrade to latest version: http://earth.google.com Click on this link to add the new Argo layer in Google Earth: http://www.jcommops.org/jcommops-kml/WebObjects/jcommops-kml.woa/wa/initKml?prog=argo It will include the following: Active Floats Inactive Floats Deployment plans Float Stories Save it in your favorites. it is set up to refresh automatically but you can right click and « Refresh » on JCOMMOPS head layer.

Part I Network Status The new Argo balloon is displayed when user click on any float or directly using the following link (change the platform code as appropriate for tests): http://www.jcommops.org/jcommops-ptf/WebObjects/jcommops-ptf.woa/wa/wmoKml?code=4900587&prog=Argo Hints: -Select the « Argo » directory in the list of layers (left) and use « Ctrl + F » Then type any platform code (WMO Id) to fly to the expected float. -Click on the WMO Id to open the balloon in your preferred browser

Part I Network Status If you use the AIC toolbar then you can use the usual shortcut http://aic.ourtoolbar.com

Part I Network Status The new Argo balloon is made of 5 self-explanatory (?) tabs: 1) About this platform 2) Data 3) Operator 4) Stories 5) Photos 6) More info. Suggestions ? More/less tabs Better vocabulary …

About this platform … - General information about the float - Main metadata General statistics … What are the first elements we should see when selecting a float ??

About this platform … Note the link to the « Profile view » that generates on the fly the GDAC trajectory and link to JAMSTEC web service, which provides individual profile plots and data access. Such « fly to » feature should probably end up in the /Data section.

Data … -Data distribution statistics -Data (netCDF, ASCII) -Data Plots -Diagnostic and QC tools from national, and global Argo data centres (DACs and GDACs/GDAR) Links are listed (Diagnostic Pages) but pictures can be embedded directly in the balloon when exist (Data Plots)

Operator… Visibility for the operator(s): agencies and people involved Access to operator (or P.I.) diagnostic pages Access to operator « Argo products » Suggestion to promote YOUR initiative? Please provide the AIC with: 1) A short text describing your program. 2) the list of weblinks to your diagnostic pages. If you are developing new pages please use only the unique WMO id as a « key » in your URL. Today some uses internal Ids, Argos Ids, DAC names, and various combinations. Some pictures or links are not yet included properly for those reasons. 3) The list of weblinks to your « Argo products »

Diagnostic pages/ Data plots To summarize, 3 levels of tools are available for a given float: GDAC, GDAR tools (in Data/) DAC tools (in Data/) PROGRAM tools (or PI, in Operator/) Example: Test on UW #5901494 Coriolis GDAC UW AOML DAC

Stories … Float stories (the float of the month) Keep sending your float stories to the Argo Project Office (Megan Scanderbeg, mscanderbeg@ucsd.edu , argo@ucsd.edu ) ~30 stories available.

Photos … Not all operators take photos of the deployments … but some do. So here is a special tab that includes a (Picasa/Google) slideshow (if WMO matching photos tags ) Test on: #7900233, #6900588, #1900589, #6900671, #4900390, #6900612, #2901153, #6900742, #2901371, #1901469 Add your photos on-line at http://picasaweb.google.com/JCOMMOPS/Argo# Add a « tag » with the the WMO Id or just send your photos to the AIC&Project Office

More info… Legend, contacts, copyright, links, acknowledgements, etc. This section certainly needs more contact points and links to additionnal resources.

A cooperative effort … GDACs, DACs, ARCs, PIs websites and tools are used. This balloon aims to be a gateway to all information available on-line for a particular float. Usefull for cross checks or QC. Check here the list of links currently used (select « Platform Diagnostic Pages» and click OK, list can be ordered by DAC/Program/Country) I am adding them gradually (~100 links for now) JAMSTEC: individual profiles (plots/data) CLS-Argos: access to Argos (new) trajectory data with full details (including ellipses of error) not yet available in real-time Sample here JMA latest (GTS) T&S plot

Remarks: All information is dynamically generated (via requests in the DB) For some technical reasons (transitions to new servers) some elements are not yet fully real time, but eventually everything will be made fully real-time. Links (or pictures) to DACs, GDACS, PIs diagnostic tools are gradually recorded in DB. Performances will be improved Content within each tab will be clarified A first suggestion was made to regoup all QC tools in a new tab. (currently in Data/). OK. Anything important missing ?

Conclusion and Planning Beta testing for Part I during March 2010 Please test and comment on the content (in general but in details if you wish) Please provide appropriate information to promote your program Please provide the links to your diagnostic tools and Argo products if needed April 2010: Part II development T/S/Anomalies data layers May 2010: finalisation of the Argo package