ArcticRIMS Site Tour
System Components and Functionality
Data Cube and Variable Picker
The Arctic-RIMS data cube and variable picker can be found at the top
of the Arctic-RIMS data explorer web page. The variable picker allows
for users to pick their bio-physical variable of interest by selecting
choices from one of seven pull down selection boxes. Each selection
box contains one to many sub-choices specific to the selection box
major heading. Users may choose from one of many static data sets
available in the "Static Data" pull down selection box or choose from
one of several variable data set choices such as "Precipitation",
"Radiation", or "Temperature".
Once a selection is made by a user in one of the pull down selection boxes they
may then choose to which temporal and spatial resolution they wish to explore
their data via the use of the data cube. The data cube displays spatial choices
along the left hand side and temporal choices along the top. Spatial choices are
represented by rows across the front of the data cube and temporal choices are
represented by columns. Spatial resolution choices within the data cube include
continent, sea basin and watershed choices. Temporal resolution choices include
daily, monthly, or yearly time series and daily, monthly, or yearly climateology
temporal resolution choices. In order for the user to choose a temporal and spatial
resolution the user must click in one intersecting square which represents their
choice for both temporal and spatial resolutions. Upon choosing their square of
interest, the data browser in the lower half of the Arctic-RIMS data explorer tool
will then be redrawn to represent the users variable and temporal resolution
choices.
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