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Introduction
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Welcome to the Official OceanAtlas web site!
The OceanAtlas project by Dr. James H. Swift, UCSD Scripps Institution of
Oceanography, and the application developer John 'Oz' Osborne, OceanAtlas
Software, Inc., is aimed at providing computer applications and data files
to electronically explore the oceans. The OceanAtlas applications display
data from oceanographic 'sections', which are the cross-sections of an
ocean region that are made by displaying data gathered from a ship stopping
along its track at intervals to carry out a vertical profile of water
properties. Sections nicely illustrate water properties and many
circulation-related features, and so are an important oceanographic tool.
OceanAtlas for Macintosh 1.0 was first released in 1991 along with a small
library of data. This site now provides more powerful application software
and more than 2000 section data files (including in standard exchange
format 'SD2'), plus direct or linked access to applications and data files
from other oceanographic software developers.
'Download OceanAtlas'
provides a means to download the OceanAtlas applications and support and
information files.
'OceanAtlas Information'
provides basic information about the Power OceanAtlas application.
'Atlas of Ocean Sections'
is the gateway to a library of more than 2000 oceanographic sections in
NODC SD2 and OceanAtlas binary formats.
'About Electronic Atlases'
provides a basic introduction to the history of electronic ocean atlases.
'About NODC SD2'
provides a format description for NODC SD2 standard exchange format.
'Internet Links'
are provided to several other useful oceanographic sites.
'Contact Information'
is provided for Swift and Osborne.
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