1. Ocean Data View Course Objective: Import, quality control and visualize own or external datasets. What you learn: Large publicly available datasets exist Basic ODV operation Import of SDN or own data into ODV Visual and automatic quality control of large datasets Creation of various plot types

2. Ocean Data View Software for easy access, interactive analysis and visualization of profile or sequence data. ODV Data Format optimized for variable length profiles/sequences (original data or data products) optimized for variable length profiles/sequences (original data or data products) binary format providing dense storage and fast data access binary format providing dense storage and fast data access support for data quality flags support for data quality flags expandable expandable platform-independent platform-independent can be used for many different data types can be used for many different data types Available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and UNIX. Available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and UNIX. Supports native ODV collection format and netCDF. Supports native ODV collection format and netCDF. Reads and imports all major oceanographic data formats (WOD, WOCE, SD2, …) Reads and imports all major oceanographic data formats (WOD, WOCE, SD2, …)

3. 12,470 stations 367,023 samples

4. 2383 stations 46,124 samples

5. Profiles Ocean Atmosphere Ice Sediments, Soil, …

6. Ocean Timeseries Atmosphere Ice etc. …

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

8. Oceanography - WOCE

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

10. Other – Satellite Data (netCDF)

11. STATION Mode

12. SCATTER Mode

13. SECTION Mode

14. SURFACE Mode

15. Overlays

16. Vector Plots

17. Patches

18. Derived Variables

19. Data Quality Control

20. Gazetteers

21. ODV – Version 4 – Application Window

22. ODV Gridding

23. Built-in Importers: U.S. NODC World Ocean Database ARGO profile and trajectory data MEDAR/MEDATLAS data WOCE CTD and bottle data Various spreadsheet file formats

24. Spreadsheet Data Files

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

26. ODV Tour: Window elements Clickable metadata Left-clicking, right clicking Station/Sample selection Derived variables Modifying the layout Window scopes Gridding and contouring