What's New in Ocean Data Portal v.1.1

Quick search topics

• Ocean Data Portal 1.1: use quick search icons .
  You can quickly search metadata simply by clicking categorized thumbnails. Each thumbnail corresponds to some topic or a group of phenomena. For now Ocean Data Portal has several topics: Real Time Ocean Data (coming from GTS streams), Global Temperature and Salinity Profile Program (GTSPP) data, Surf and Marine Weather Forecasts (from Hydrometeorological Centre of Russia, Moscow), Satellite images (Black sea) and Secchi disk data.

  

  
  

Zipped result data

• Download obtained data files as single compressed file (ZIP).
  On your request Ocean Data Portal returns either a number of NetCDF files or original files (JPG,PDF, etc.). For every NetCDF Ocean Data Portal provides conversion into the ASCII-representation. After that both ASCII and NetCDF files will be packed into the single compressed file (ZIP) with CRC you can download and use for own purposes.

  

Charts

• Build your own chart using obtained data.
  If you have queried a structured data and response has returned a number of NetCDF files, you can build a number of charts:
  Spatial distribution of parameter; Scatter plot or line plot filtered by some key field; Scatter plot or line plot; Bar chart;

  

Query cart and tracking

• Track down your queries on single page.
  After you have posted your query on one or single resources there is no need to keep this page opened as request can be processed some time (from several seconds to dozens of minutes depending on data volume and request options). You can find query bar below the advanced search panel. Query bar hold information like a shopping cart on total requests processed during current session, number of running and completed data requests. Clicking on 'Details...' link on the query bar you can track down all your requests on single page. This page will be refreshed automatically every 5 seconds or you can do it manually.

  
  

Result table export (CSV, Excel, XML, PDF)

• Save obtained data as CVS, Excel, XML or PDF files.
  Using Ocean Data Portal Viewing Service you can now only display resulted data in a tabular mode, but you can also export it as CSV (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values), Excel format, XML or PDF file. Export panel is located in the bottom of the data table.

  CSV | Excel | XML | PDF

Multilingual support

• Switch interface language between English or Russian.
  Ocean Data Portal supports multilingual approach. At present moment English and Russian languages are supported in user interface. Other languages will be included soon. If you want to help us to include your language into the Ocean Data Portal, please contact us.