HOT DOGS Data Visualization
Watch this video to learn what HOT-DOGS is all about.
Station ALOHA is a multidisciplinary hydrostation situated in the North Pacific subtropical gyre. A host of biological and chemical variables have been measured at this site on a near-monthly basis since October 1988. Such data sets provide a rare and valuable opportunity to analyze fundamental geophysical dynamics and ecosystem processes. Fortunately, these data are available for online public access and can be downloaded for students to explore a wide range of research questions.
Instructions
- From the menu at the top of the screen, go to Vertical Profiles > Display > Bottle
- Enter cruise number (178, for February 2006), station (2, for ALOHA);
leave cast numbers blank - Enter axis variables:
- X-axis: “Nitrate + Nitrite
- Y-axis: “Pressure”
- C-axis: leave blank
- Set Output type as a “text”
- Click “Submit Query;” The data will be displayed as follows:
- Highlight the displayed data (CTRL+A) and copy it (CTRL+C)
- Open a new document in your text editor (Notepad, WordPad, TextEdit; usually in your utilities or accessories folder)
- Paste the data into the new document (CTRL+V).
- Save the file on the desktop or in an easy-to-find folder
- Repeat this procedure for Phosphate (Choose “Phosphate” for the X-axis in Data Visualization step 4-a)
- Continue on to BATS Data Visualization