Ocean Data View (ODV) is a proprietary, freely available, software package for the analysis and visualization of oceanographic and meteorological data sets.Reiner Schlitzer, Interactive analysis and visualization of geoscience data with Ocean Data View, Computers & Geosciences, Volume 28, Issue 10, December 2002, Pages 1211-1218, http://epic.awi.de/Publications/Sch2001h.pdf http://www.tos.org/oceanography/issues/issue_archive/.../11.2_brown.pdf
ODV is used by a large number of oceanographers. The UNESCO Ocean Teacher project employs ODV as one of its main analysis and display tools.ODV homepage ODV is used to display and analyze data from several oceanographic projects such as Argo, World Ocean Circulation Experiment, World Ocean Database Project, SeaDataNet, World Ocean Atlas, and Medar/Medatlas projects.Murray Brown, Ocean Data View 4.0, Oceanography, 11, No 2/1998, 19-21, http://www.jcommops.org/FTPRoot/Argo/Tools/ODV/MBrown_ODV_Review.pdf Ocean Data View includes also options that permit to perform objective analysis thanks to the add-on DIVA software.
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External links http://odv.awi.de/