U.S.Dept of Commerce / NOAA / OAR / ERL / PMEL / TAO

Realtime TAO Buoy Data Display using Java

The realtime data are received daily via satellite from the TAO buoy array in the Tropical Pacific Ocean.

Java Applet for the Display of Realtime Meteorological Data

The following java applet reads and plots the realtime tao meteorological data files. This applet demonstrates the ability to interactively display data located on a remote server at PMEL.

This applet uses the G2Dint class from the Java Graph Class Library to plot the data. This allows the user some interactive control over the plot and the ability to retrieve data points.

Mouse Down, Drag, Up

By pressing the mouse button and dragging it across the screen the scale of the plot can be altered. With the release of the mouse button the plot is redrawn using the new scale. This can be used to zoom in on a section of the plot. Data outside the plot is clipped.

Shift Mouse Down

By pressing the shift key and the mouse the plot is rescaled back to the default scale of the data.

Keypress R

By pressing R the plot is rescaled back to the default scale of the data.

Keypress r

By pressing r the plot is repainted. This is useful when scrolling the page as scrolling can effect the plot in odd ways.

Keypress d

This event will popup a window that will display the closest data point to the cursor. Repeated pressing of the key while moving the cursor will display the closest data point to the cursor. A black dot will be plotted over the data point to indicate which data point has been found.

Use Keypress r to refresh the plot and erase the black dots.

Keypress D

This event will hide the closest data point window.

Keypress m

This event will popup a window that will allow the user to set the plot range by entering the xmin,xmax, ymin and ymax limits. Any field left blank will be ignored. Hitting return in any field will move the cursor to the next field in the list.

Keypress h

This event if it occurs in Any of the popup windows will cause the window to be hidden. This can be used if the popup windows are accidentally left behind after the main window has disappeared.