Introduction to Marine Data Management II

Data Management Project: Southestern Patagonia

Ana Luiza Gandara Martins

Professor: Dr. Murray Brown

December, 2013

MarineDataLiteracy.org

Creating a Project Map in Saga: Global shapefile of country boundaries:

World Borders Dataset

Software: SAGAMap Source: thematicmapping.org

Creating Graticules and Frames in Saga: Patagonia coordinates: Up: -50 Down: -60 Right: -60 Left: -70

Creating Dummy Grid Templates in Saga1 degree 0.5 degree 0.1 degree

0.05 degree 0.01 degree

Adding GEBCO Depth Contours to a Project Map in Saga

GEBCO Topography & Bathymetry GEBCO Bathymetry Contours

SagaSoftware: GEBCOlite

Adding GEBCO Depth Contours to a Project Map in Saga

Saga

GEBCO Coastline

GEBCO Bathymetry

Adding a Sediment Thickness Grid to a Project Map in Saga

Total Sediment Thickness of the World's Oceans & Marginal Seas

Map Source: NOAA National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) ngdc.noaa.gov

Adding Administrative Boundaries and Coastline to a Project Map in Saga

Map source: GADM database of Global Administrative Areas gadm.org

Adding Marine Regions to a Project Map in Saga

Map source: Marineregions.org

Cutting a Shape to the Project Map Extent in Saga

Data source: NOAA - World Ocean Atlas Select (WOAselect) nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/SELECT/woaselect

Obtaining Area-Specific Marine Data and metadata from the World Ocean Database

Data source: NOAA - World Ocean Database Select (WOD13): nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/indprod.html

Obtaining Synthetic Ocean Station Data from the World Ocean Atlas

Data source: Ocean Data View/ World Ocean Atlas 2009 - http://odv.awi.de/en/data/ocean/world_ocean_atlas_2009/

Creating Marine Data Station Plots in ODV

Software: Ocean Data View (ODV)

Creating Marine Data Scatter Plots in ODV

Creating Marine Data Section Plots in ODV

Exporting Marine Data from ODV: Data Subsets

Exporting Marine Data Plot Images from ODV

Converting a Data Table to a Points Shape in Saga

0 meter

400 meters

Summer (jan, feb, mar) Winter (jul, aug, sep)

Software: SAGA

Gridding Points Shapes in Saga

0 meter

400 meters

Summer (jan, feb, mar) Winter (jul, aug, sep)

Cholorophyl

SST

Summer (jan, feb, mar) Winter (jul, aug, sep)

Importing Satellite Chlorophyll and SST Climatologies into Marine GIS: Color Web

Data source: Ocean Color Web: oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Software: SAGA

GEBCO 08 Global Relief Grid: Local Processing of Products

Data source: General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) Digital Atlas Software: SAGA

Estimating Topographic Contours in Saga from SRTM Data

Map source: Diva website - diva-gis.org/gdata

Plotting Vector Arrows from U and V Component Grids with Saga

Data source: National Virtual Ocean Data System (NVODS) - http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/Ferret/ Software: SAGA

Plotting Vector Arrows from the Global Drifter Program 0.5-Degree Climatology

Data source: The Global Drifter Program - aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dac/index.php Software: SAGA

Managing Operational Data in IDV:Visualizing Satellite-Measured Surface Temperature

Fields in IDV: GHRSST

Data source: Group for high resolution sea surface temperature- https://www.ghrsst.org/ Software: IDV

NCDC-lower resolution

REMSS-higher resolution

Visualizing Ocean Model Vectors in IDV: HYCOM THREDDS

Waterflow forecast

SST & flow vectors forecast

Data source: Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM) - hycom.org/dataserver Software: IDV

Visualizing Satellite-Measured Optical Properties and Pigments in IDV: GlobColour

Data source: GlobColour Project European Node for Global Ocean Colour- globcolour.info