Abstract:
NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) has developed a World-Wide Web (WWW)-based visualization and data extraction system. The PMEL server uses HTML forms to provide a point and click front end to the scientific analysis and visualization program FERRET. The server provides access to a large (over 20 gigabytes) research-oriented data base of multi-dimensional, gridded,
... environmental data collected within NOAA and elsewhere. The data base is maintained by the Thermal Modeling and Analysis Project (TMAP) at PMEL.
Ferret LAS software can be obtained and configured to meet the needs of other gridded data set providers. It is especially well-suited to groups of data producers with related data sets at distributed locations (for example, a community modeling effort). It runs on most Unix systems, and on Windows NT/9x using X windows for display. It can be installed to run from a Web browser ("WebFerret") for use while away from your desk or from a system lacking X windows software. It can transparently access extensive remote Internet data bases using DODS; see http://www.opendap.org/. 
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