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- Ocean data sets for CDROM.
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- As stated, each file has 512 x 512 pixels which form an image.
- Each pixel is represened by one byte, each scan of the image by
- one record. The possible data values for any pixel, therefore,
- range from 0 - 255.
-
- For displaying the images, the only constraint we have is that
- data value 0 should be black and 255 should be white. This is
- because all images have textual information scribed in to make
- them self-documenting. If it is impossible to accomodate this
- color scheme, the only loss will be that the text may be of low
- contrast or invisible. Text (data value 255) is always written
- against a background of data value 0.
-
- All data values other than 0 and 255 represent linearly scaled
- geophysical values. That is, the greater the data value in the
- image, the greater the geophysical value. For display, we
- typically use a color scheme where the colors grade gradually and
- linearly from 0 to 255:
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- black - magenta - purple - blue - cyan - green - yellow - red -
- white.
-
- This gives a pleasing effect for sea surface temperature data,
- where purples and blues (cool colors) represent colder waters,
- and yellows and reds the warmer waters. You may change the color
- representation as you see fit, but that is how we do it. Some of
- the images have a scale included that relates the displayed color
- to its corresponding geophysical value. This is done to make the
- images more self-documenting.
-
- The data files we selected are:
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- WCSNAP.IMG - chlorophyll concentration of the easterm pacific
- from 20N to 55N (U. S. Pacific Coast). 1 pixel is about 10 km
- square. The image includes a scale for translating color to
- geophysical value, so any color scheme can be used for display.
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- WCMEAN.IMG - A monthly mean of images like the above. Scale
- included.
-
- SCBSST.IMG - A sea surface temperature image from the Santa
- Barbara area. A ship track is also shown on the image. Scale
- included. 1 pixel is about 1 km square.
-
- SCBSNAP.IMG - a chlorophyll concentration image from the Santa
- Barbara area. Scale included. 1 pixel is about 1 km square.
-
- SCBMEAN.IMG - A monthly mean of images like the above. Scale
- included.
-
- LI.IMG - A chlorophyll concentration image from the New York
- City area. 1 pixel is about 1 km square. No color scale.
-
- GS.IMG - A sea surface temperature image of the western Atlantic
- showing the sharp thermal boundary of the Gulf Stream. 1 pixel
- is about 10 km square. No color scale.
-
- GLOBAL.359 through GLOBAL.240 - these files are a "movie" of the
- global (full earth disk) sea surface temperature over a 2-week
- period. If the frames are displayed in sequence, the earth will
- appear to rotate. They are stored in order 359 - 240 because
- that sequence causes the motion to be in the "right" direction.
-
- There are a total of 127 * 512 * 512 bytes (31.75 megabytes) of
- data.
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