Training
The Integrated Ocean Observing System, IOOS training resources aim to help users understand what ocean observations data and information is available via websites and mobile devices and how to use them.
Screen Capture of Great Lakes, GLOS Observation Explorer
Great Lakes (GLOS) Observation Explorer-Tutorial
The Great Lakes, GLOS, Observation Explorer provides access to real-time and historic data from across the Great Lakes including lake conditions; water levels, wave heights, air and water temperatures and more.
This
tutorial shows some basic features of the GLOS observation explorer, including how to download and plot buoy data from around the Great Lakes.
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Northwest Pacific (NANOOS) Video Channels
The NANOOSpnw, Pacific Northwest channel includes videos about ocean observing and the usage of data, products and services available on this observing region's website.
Tsunami Evacuation Zone Portal Tour
Screen Capture of NANOOS Tsunami Evacuation Zone Portal video tour
These series of video tutorials provide an overview and a demontration of the information available on via this portal and its various features, such as:
- How to get to the Tsunami Evacuation Portal and provides an overview of the its features
- How to use and interpret the Map
- How to find and save locations using the Place feature in the Zone Portal.
- Where to find additional earthquake and tsunami preparedness information.
NANOOS Visualization System (NVS)
NANOOS Visualization System (NVS) introduction series:
- Introduction (2 min)
- How to access time series data
- How to access overlay data (to be released)
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Southeast Atlantic (SECOORA) Video Aids
Collection of annotated visuals/video guides to help explain the functionality of the tools and products available on the Southeast Atlantic Observing System's Data and Maps portion of the website:
- Interactive map and platform query, alert and download pages
- High Frequency Radar thredds/godiva interface - using thredds/godiva map visualization interface with hf radar dataset
- Thredds/opendap hf radar download, all_latest.csv - how to download hf radar data via opendap interface/url, link to all_latest.csv file for in_situ aggregated measurements
- Interactive map with model, hfradar usage - using SECOORA's interactive map (test version to be released soon) which shows layers of global and regional model layers and time selection and overlay/opacity comparison
- cdm validate, ncWMS, Common Data Model Coordinate System Validation - using unidata's online cdm validator tool with a netcdf/opendap/thredds target - demo of ncWMS admin features
- thredds, godiva/ncWMS demo - using thredds,godiva/ncWMS to display map data and associated time series
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Education and Outreach:
Education websites, lesson plan, real data resources for use in classrom, multimedia resources
Coming Soon: Cook Inlet Response Tool
The Cook Inlet Response Tool (CIRT) is a data integration & visualization product designed to assist responders in the event of an oil spill or other event. Soon to be available is a series of video tutorials to showcase this tool.
Additional Resources
NOAA Environmental Data Connector ArcMap Tutorial