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

2. Software for easy access, interactive analysis and visualization
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 netCDF.
Reads and imports many oceanographic data formats, (e.g., WOD, ARGO, GTSPP, WOCE, SeaDataNet, MedAtlas, 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

3. Example Data Collections

4. 12,470 stations
367,023 samples

5. 2383 stations
46,124 samples

6. Supported Data Types

7. Profiles
Ocean
Atmosphere
Ice
Sediments, Soil, …

8. Timeseries
Ocean
Atmosphere
Ice
etc. …

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

10. Oceanography - WOCE

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

12. Other – Satellite Data (netCDF)

13. Data Window Types

14. STATION

15. SCATTER

16. SECTION

17. SURFACE

18. Special Features

19. Overlays

20. Vector Plots

21. Patches

22. Derived Variables

23. easy spotting and identification of outliers or offsets
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

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

25. Gazetteers

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

27. Spreadsheet Data Files

28. ODV4 – Application Window

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