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Accessing Quick Looks for ARM Archive Data Files

(2/5/98; revised 11/22/2004 Giri Palanisamy and Raymond A. cCord)

Daily quick look plots for the ARM data files are being generated by the ARM Archive. The quick looks are only available for datastream specific primary measurements. Users can view these quick look plots by browsing the directory tree or using the Thumbnail browser application or using the ARM Data browser application.

1) Quick Looks by Directory

 Quick looks are organized by year, site, datastream, year_month

  • Year / site / datastream / datastream.yearmonth / quick look images
  • e.g., 2004/sgp/sgpsirsE1.b1/sgpsirsE1.b1.200404/sgpsirsE1.b1.20040403.000000.png
    •   Catalog of Quick looks: This catalog summary lists data streams that have quick looks by site. It also provides information about the date range and number of quick looks available for each data stream. The information in this catalog is current as of August 3, 2009, and is updated about once a month. Click on the following sites to view the corresponding catalog.
  • SGP (Southern Great Plains)
  • TWP (Tropical Western Pacific)
  • NSA (North Slope of Alaska)
  • PYE (Point Reyes, CA)
  • NIM (Niamey, Niger)
  • FKB (Black Forest, Germany)
  • HFE (Shouxian, China)
    •   Click the following link to browse quick look directory
  • http://www.archive.arm.gov/quicklooks/

    • 2) Viewing Quick Looks using the ARM Thumbnail Browser

  • Link to Thumbnail Browser

    •  The ARM Thumbnail Browser allows the user to view thumbnails and quick looks based on their selection. This application allows the user to select multiple datastreams and measurements to view thumbnail images.

    any data streams still have quick looks that are under development. Additional data streams will be implemented over the next few months. Click here to go to Thumbnail Browser

    3) Viewing Quick Looks using ARM Data Browser

    The ARM Data Browser allows the user to view thumbnails one month at a time. The following steps explains how the user can access quick looks by using the Data Browser.

    Step 1: Login to the archive at http://www.archive.arm.gov/cgi-bin/arm-archive and select Data Browser Interface

    Step 2: Select an Interface: select Novice User Interface or Power User Interface or Measurement Interface



    Step 3: Based on the interface selected, the user will be asked to answer various queries (e.g. date range, instruments or measurements, facilities, datastreams etc..) and finally the 'data selection summary page' will be displayed.

    The summary table in this page (refer to below image) displays the available number of quick looks for the selected datastreams.

    Step 4: Click the "Quick Looks" button to proceed to quick looks page



    Step 5:Select a datastream and a measurement from the list and proceed to thumbnail page (refer to below image). Click any of the thumbnail to view quick looks


    Thumbnails for Narrowband Direct Normal Irradiance from MFRSR from September 2003 from SGP

    Sample quick look page


    Quick looks for Narrowband for MFRSR from September 3, 2003 from SGP

    Step 5: Close quick look popup window and go back to thumbnails window to view other quick looks

    Step 6: Close thumbnail popup window and go back to the ARM data browser main window to order files or change search criteria