A web interface for gridding and visualizing oceanographic data Alexander Barth (1,2), Aida Alvera-Azcárate (1,2), Charles Troupin (1), Mohamed Ouberdous (1), Jean-Marie Beckers (1,2), Matteo Vinci (3) contact: (1) University of Liege, AGO/GHER, Liege, Belgium (2) National Fund for Scientific Research, Belgium (1) OGS-National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics

OceanBrowser Web-based viewer of climatologies (in NetCDF) Based on OGS standards (Open Geospatial Consortium): WMS, WFS Server: Implemented in Python and running on Apache using mod_wsgi NetCDF files organized in folders → file structure mapped in a hierarchy of Layers Adding a new climatology requires just to copy a file in the data folder of the WMS Server Client: Based on OpenLayers javascript library Support for animations in web-browser

Output formats Available output formats for exporting graphics: PNG (ubiquitous web browser support) Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). W3C standard since Supported by all major browsers except Internet Explorer. Keyhole Markup Language (KML). Google Earth and NASA World Wind Encapsulated PostScript (EPS). Preferred format for numerous scientific journals

Available styles Styles Interpolated Filled contours Simple contours Colorbar options Colormap Range

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Integration with other Wep Map Services Possibility to query an inventory of layers from other WMS Visualize layers from EMODNET (Chemical data) together with other layers

Data Selection

Diva-on-web: upload No registration required Data uploaded as ascii text or ODV4 file