Data

Your access to ANFOG data discovery and exploration is through the IMOS Ocean Portal.

Direct access to data files is also possible through: http://opendap-ivec.arcs.org.au/thredds/catalog/IMOS/ANFOG/catalog.html

See the ANFOG Data Management manual for information relating to the format of ANFOG glider data.

SEE_GLIDER : ANFOG Data Visualisation Software

SEE_GLIDER is an Australian Facility for Ocean Gliders (ANFOG) Windows platform software package which serves to allow users quick visualisation of ANFOG’s oceanographic data, via an easy-to-use graphical user interface.

This free SEEGLIDER software package was designed so that even users with no programming background will be able to access the NetCDF files, filter out the bad data and see glider data in the form of 3D plots of water properties, interpolated contour charts, vertical profiles, water properties comparison charts, etc. Users can easily choose and extract segments of data for quick visualisation. Additionally, users can save their selected data as text files for easy access in other applications.

DOWNLOADS

SEE_GLIDER v1.0 (851K) for users who already have MATLAB R2008b installed.

SEE_GLIDER_PACKAGE v1.0 (256M) for users who do not use MATLAB.

USERS MANUAL (977K)

SAMPLE DATA (5.4M)

See below for some examples of Glider data from Rottnest Island, near Perth.

Example Results: Rottnest Island Wake Upwelling

The Deployment

On the 17th January 2006 the Slocum Glider, ‘Darwin’, was deployed off the coast of Perth, Western Australia. The glider was deployed for 22 days, traversing 485 km and performing 2420 vertical profiles (Figure 6). It recorded CTD and optical backscatter, transmitting data to shore in near real-time via satellite. Depth averaged currents were also estimated based on the difference between the gliders dead-reckoned position and surface GPS fixes.