ncBrowse A Graphical netCDF/OPeNDAP Browser Donald Denbo 1 & John Osborne 2 1 UW/JISAO-NOAA/PMEL, 2 OceanAtlas Software

th ESIP Technical Meeting - OPeNDAP Session2 Overview  ncBrowse is a general purpose, interactive tool for graphical browsing of data and attributes in netCDF files and netCDF compatible OPeNDAP URLs.  Popular, freely available  8,924 downloads by 3,704 unique sites in 61 countries  OPeNDAP (DODS) client, Unidata netCDF client, WOCE data CD, etc. 

th ESIP Technical Meeting - OPeNDAP Session3 Features  SGT graphics for 1 and 2 dimensional cuts through data SGT graphics SGT graphics  VisAD graphics for 3 dimensional plots VisAD  Handles files with character variables and dimensions without associated variables  Properly decodes several time formats  Access to remote data files via OPeNDAP and direct access to remote netCDF files from the Web  Vector, contour, and line plots  Variable mapping (parametric plots) and animations by varying parameters in Variable Map  Available for UNIX, Win32, and MacOS  Graphical appearance easily modified

th ESIP Technical Meeting - OPeNDAP Session4 Viewing the Data Structure

th ESIP Technical Meeting - OPeNDAP Session5 Time Series

Time/Depth Pixel Plot

th ESIP Technical Meeting - OPeNDAP Session7 Contour Plot

OPeNDAP Dataset

Creating an Animation

Vector Plot

th ESIP Technical Meeting - OPeNDAP Session13 Other OPeNDAP related Projects  Climate Data Portal  Server  Client  OceanShare - Collaborative Application  SGT - Scientific Graphics Toolkit

Climate Data Portal Distributed ocean observations  Major in situ data collections:   TAO El Nino buoy data (realtime/PMEL), Global sea level data (realtime/U of Hi), GTSPP (NODC), PMEL hydrographic data and time series collection, WOCE ADCP (U of Hi), IPRC/APDRC in situ data, US Coastal Ocean Time Series database (NODC)  OPeNDAP compatibility  Will follow OPeNDAP in-situ standards  Compatible with Grads DODS Server (GDS) for both server and client compatibility

th ESIP Technical Meeting - OPeNDAP Session15 Climate Data Portal Web and Desktop Clients in-situ client in-situ client LDAP directory services NdEdit for data selection/subsetting Data Servers, Clients (Java and Web) – focus on in situ data OPeNDAP compatible soon OPeNDAP compatible soon v/cdp/cdpjava.htm v/cdp/cdpjava.htm

OceanShare Network collaboration tool  Collaboration features  Local, remote data file access and Java graphics  Standard collaboration tool features (annotation, whiteboard, etc)  Secure LDAP Document Repository  Proposals, papers in progress, data, images  Access control by document or by folder  Accessible from web and desktop  OPeNDAP compatible soon 

SGT: A Scientific Graphics Toolkit  Java toolkit for scientific graphics  On-line documentation, examples, tutorials, streaming video  JavaBeans in next release  Features  Contour, line and vector plots,  Axes user settable or automatically scaled  multiple Time Axis formats  mouse-movable, customizable Labels, line keys, icons  Legend generation automatic  Widely used, freely available  scientific and commercial applications use SGT  15,696 downloads by 5,478 unique sites from 70 countries 

th ESIP Technical Meeting - OPeNDAP Session18 Live Demonstration