README for Ocean Data View 4 - Windows 2010 Reiner Schlitzer, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and

d Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany Email: Reiner.Schlitzer@awi.de ----------------------------------------------------------------------OCEAN DATA VIEW 4 LICENSE AGREEMENT 1. SCIENTIFIC USE AND TEACHING Ocean Data View can be used free of charge for non-commercial, non-military research and teaching purposes. If you use the software for your scientific work, you must reference Ocean Data View in your publications as follows: Schlitzer, R., Ocean Data View, http://odv.awi.de, 2010.

2. COMMERCIAL AND MILITARY USE If you plan to use Ocean Data View or any of its components for commercial or military applications and products, you must obtain a software license. Please contact the address below for further information. Email: Reiner.Schlitzer@awi.de

3. WARRANTY DISCLAIMER THE ODV SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE SOFTWARE PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION. IN NO EVENT WILL AWI OR ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SOFTWARE (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE SOFTWARE TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER SOFTWARE). -----------------------------------------------------------------------

**SUPPORTED PLATFORMS Windows NT, 98, 2000, XP, Vista, and Windows 7 (32 and 64bit)

**INSTALLATION

ODV4 can be installed side-by-side with previous ODV3 versions. If you have the previous ODV3 already installed on your computer, please install ODV4 at the same location. Do not uninstall ODV3 and do not change the installation directory suggested by the ODV4 installer. Both versions will be functional. ODV4 will recognize and use any optional package that has been installed under previous ODV3 versions. NOTE: You need administrator privileges to perform the installation. Close any running instance of ODV3 or ODV4 before starting the installation. To install the latest version of Ocean Data View 4 on one of the supported Windows platforms download or copy the file "odv_<version>_w32.exe" from the ODV download page to your system. Double-click on this file to start the installation and follow the instructions.

**CUSTOMIZATION ODV will automatically select two fonts for use during painting on the graphics canvas and for text output in the metadata and data list windows, as well as on dialogs and popup menus. You can adjust these default settings using the "View > Settings > Font" option. Increase, for instance, the "Graphics Font > Size" value, to obtain larger text and axis annotations in graphics windows. You modify the "Text Font > Size" entry to adjust the font size used for list windows, dialog boxes and popup menus. Ocean Data View 4 requires a web browser for viewing the ODV4 help document and a text viewer (or editor) for viewing various info, log or other text files. ODV will try to locate suitable applications on your system automatically. You can use option "View > Settings > Program Locations" to override these default settings and specify full pathnames of your favorite browser and text viewer manually.

**OPTIONAL PACKAGES Note that there are high resolution coastline/bathymetry files and ready-to-use data collections available for ODV4 as optional packages. See the ODV download page for an overview of available packages and for instructions on how to install them. Version3.0 optional packages from the ODV website work with ODV4. Optional packages installed under previous ODV versions are recognized and used by ODV4. They need not be installed again. **USAGE To run ODV on an existing collection, do one of the following: - double-click on the "Ocean Data View 4" icon on the desktop, - choose "Ocean Data View 4" from the Programme menu of the Windows "Start"-Button,

- double-click on the *.odv or *.var file of the collection that you want to use. If you have data in one of ODV's import formats (see ODV help for supported formats) you can simply drag-and-drop this data file on the "Ocean Data View 4" desktop icon. In such a case, ODV will create a new collection in the directory of the data file, will import the data from the file and then open the collection for exploration and analysis. You invoke ODV's functionality through the main menu (just below the ODV title bar) or via popup menus that you activate by clicking the right mouse button. Note that you get different popup menus depending on the mouse position at the time of the click. You select stations or samples by simply clicking on them with the left mouse button. You open a particular data collection or netCDF file using the "File > Open" option. Note that whenever ODV opens a particular data collection, it initially applies the view settings active when the collection was used last. Also note that station selection criteria might be in effect, and that only a subset of the stations in the current data collection may be shown in the map. Use "View > Station Selection Criteria" to select a different station subset or all stations in the collection, if necessary. You may load other, previously saved views using "View > Load View", you may manually modify the layout of station map and data plot windows using the "Window Layout" option of the canvas popup menu, which also allows you to load one of the predefined view templates. You plot property/property plots of one or more stations by double-clicking on the respective stations. You create scatter-plots, sections and distributions on isosurfaces by assigning appropriate window properties and variables of your choice on the X, Y and Z axis of the window. Note that a section or isosurface variables have to be defined for a plot to appear. You save plots in image files (gif, png, jpg) or produce printouts using the "Save ... As" and "Print Canvas" options. Note that you can run multiple instances of ODV simultaneously, even using the same collection. For further information see the ODV help file that can be invoked via ODV's Help Topic option or by pressing F1.