OCEAN DATA EXPLORER

General Guidance: Take your time working through your assigned portion of the exercise. Be thorough, you will be sharing your findings with other students in the class.

Become an "Expert"

1. Visit and complete the Introduction
2. Visit your assigned "expert" section and complete the worksheet provided before coming to the next class session.
3. In class:
   1. Discuss your findings with your "expert" group.
   2. Discuss your findings with your "mixed" group.
   3. Report your "mixed" group findings to the class.

Data Explorer Links

Go to the Ocean Data Explorer site: https://dataexplorer.oceanobservatories.org

• Select an Array and click on “Go” (leave “select area(s) of interest” alone)
• Select a site/platform
• Select a Node

"Expert" report (visit, explore, review)

• Enlarge a data set
• Click through top line options:
  • Data (original display)
  • Real-time streaming data
  • More information
  • Annotations list
  • All downloads
  • Find nearby sample and glider profiles
• Change:
  • Chart type
  • Time bin
  • Time range (sliders under graph)
  • Observations & Seasonal Statistics
    • Click each of the blue check boxes on and off
    • What happens if “autoscale” is off?
• Look at other information on the page
• Prepare a short overview describing the location, the data available, what the data could be used to study, and a few things you thought were interesting.

Worksheet

• download and complete