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Computer Atlas of the NorthWest Atlantic


 
   

The Computer Atlas of the Northwest Atlantic (CANWA) is capable of :

  • storing and accessing large volumes of both historical and recent observations,
  • data quality control,
  • creating subsets in any specified spatial and temporal domain (e.g. on an arbitrary vertical section or an iso-surface),
  • performing various statistic and oceanographic analyses (time series, T-S, etc.),
  • gridding and visualizing data and results.

The Atlas has already been used in BIO for data analysis, preparation of fields to initialize hydrodynamic models and comparisons of property distributions based on the observational data and results of modeling. The software is available to any interested party, free of charge. Please note that the current version of the Atlas is a beta one (test).

The CANWA Chapters:
1 Origin of the Atlas
2 The Data Sets
3 Features and Functionality
4 Oceanographic Applications
5 Installation (System Requirements)
6 Quick Guide
7 Comments, Problems, Suggestions
8 Some Q & A's

If you have any problems downloading the files from our server or would like to be included into the CANWA CD-ROM distribution list please send a request, containing your mailing address and field of expertise (optional) or/and organization (optional).

If you have any questions about the Computer Atlas or this page, contact Igor Yashayaev.



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Options of downloading the CANWA and its components Down-
loadable file size
Disc
space usage
Comments
1 Complete (software & data) 21M 34M The XBT data set is partial (1980-1995). Download the entire set in option 5 / XBT Data
2 CANWA Light 14M 23M Only 1980-1995 Bottle, CTD and XBT data sets are included
3 Bottle Data 7M 10M Unzip the bottle.zip and move its contents to the canwa\data director
4 CTD Data 7M 11M Unzip the ctd.zip and move its contents to the canwa\data directory
5 XBT Data 28M 64M Unzip the xbt.zip and move its contents to the canwa\data directory

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Last Modified : 2003-01-10