Alaska Ocean Observing System Data Management

The Data Management Team is located on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus.

See information provided by the Anchorage Outreach team at www.aoos.org

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Using AMIS

This webpage takes you through how to use AMIS (The Alaska Marine Information System online data warehouse searching tool.) Please note that the acronyms shown inside of images will not produce tool tips.

Please note - everyone is welcome to preview data* in the data warehouse; if you wish to download raw data you will need a myAOOS account.

* See a visual image that is preliminary of what the data represents.

Use the links below to jump to specific sections:

Performing searches
Seeing the available data via a timeline [and exploring the results]
Previewing data
- drilling down into the data
- plotting data
Requesting data
Getting your MyAOOS account
Troubleshooting: tips & tricks

Performing searches

Set up your search
- Choose the category of variable you'd like from the first dropdown list
- Make your selection from the resulting secondary dropdown list - greyed out items are in development and will be added as additional datasets are loade
Repeat above procedure to add multiple items to the project and/or data term sets. You may also create additional Project term sets.
Clear All if you'd like to start your search over or click 'delete' next to specific search terms (image 2 below)

select variable graphic

image 1: selecting category - You may choose from Agency, People, Time Range, Region, Program, Variable, Words in… Grey variables are not yet available

image 2: populating the search box

NOTE: You may add multiple items to search term sets.
'Delete' option in red allows you to refine search “Clear All” button requires starting over.

search with data and project results

If your search returned the datasets you were looking for proceed to “Explore RESULTS”
To modify your search use the drop down menus and then choose “Search”
View the Proposal/Project metadata by clicking "+"

image 3: results of your search show up in two columns below the search area. To see more about a Proposal/Project choose any "+" to display the abstract.

As a default all of the datasets are selected. You may use the radio dial to unselect and then click the boxes to just select the datasets you want.

choose datasets

image 4: rolling over the dataset will display the region and if it is an acronym the full name.
Click on link to see the Metadata (image 5 below) in a new window.

metdata pop up

The Data Timeline & Exploring the Results

When you have ‘dataset results,’ proceed to Explore the Results. By default the data timeline appears. This indicates the periods of time for which the data warehouse has entries for that particular data set. Click “Preview DATA” for a dynamic GIS preview of the data. When you are viewing the data results you may turn on data layers.

time of data

image 7 below left: GIS preview arena. Turn on data layers (they stack on in the order listed) by checking items on the left.

NOTE: There are additional options for some datasets. - click to see legend
Use then click
; line graph appears in a pop-up window (image 8).

Previewing data

Click the "B Preview DATA" button to see a graphical display of the data. Note: this is a preview only. Turn on the data layers you wish to see. They will show up as layers in the image viewing area.

Note: Select data layers have additional tools available. When you see click on the image to have a pop-up including more information about the data in the preview.

	NOTE: There are additional options for some datasets. - click to see legend Use then click
image 7: GIS preview arena. Turn on data layers (they stack on in the order listed) by checking items on the left.	; line graph appears in a pop-up window (image 8).
	image 9 left: turn on data layer, use , draw a line then click ; vertical section appears in a pop-up window image 10 below
	image 11: you will receive email(s) notifying you when your job(s) are ready. NOTE: data will be available in several of the following formats GeoTIFF HDF NetCDF KMZ (Google) Shapefile CSV

Requesting data

Request the data download: you may only request data if you are logged into your MyAOOS account. Choose the time and spatial ranges you are interested in as well as your desired data format! You receive an email when your unique results are ready for download.

Getting your myAOOS account

In order to be able to download the datasets you find, you'll need to set up a myAOOS account to download the datasets in a variety of industry standard formats. AOOS will email you the results of your request. Use the data on your desktop machine with whichever tools work best for you.

Troubleshooting: tips & tricks

When using the time range search: fill the month, day, year and seconds
- you can enter a single '0' for each second field and it will update accordingly
Large datasets may take time to load: the 'done' statement in your browser may not reflect the data still loading
If you are having difficulty seeing the 'bounding box' in the preview map image area you can go back to the "Set up SEARCH" and turn off select data sets that match your search and return to the "Explore RESULTS" arena - this will make the purple bounding display visible when you mouse over the dataset