Google Earth Resources/Info:

• Introductory information & Users Guide from Google Earth
• More Non-NOAA Google Earth applications/KML
• NWS Google Earth Training 101 Webinar - Available on-line Login with NOAA email)

Google Ocean Tips:

• NOTE - to get beneath the surface of the ocean, you must have the "terrain" layer ticked (last layer on the bottom left of your screen).
• Good commentary on the use of the new Google Ocean

NOAA Applications & Demos of Google Earth & Google Ocean

• Google Ocean! Dive down into the ocean and cruise along the sea floor from Blanco Trench to Cobb Sea Mount - OAR
  Hint - Turn ON "terrain" layer (last layer on the bottom left), and turn on "Water Surface" under "View"
  http://www.epic.noaa.gov/talks/nns/forums/documents/blanco_trench_to_cobb_sea_mount.kmz
• November 2009 Nor'easter (nov09_ne) Aerial Photography
  http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/storms/nov09_ne/ge/nov09_ne_Netlink.kml
• OAR - 20th Century Reanalysis Monthly/Seasonal Composites available for Google Earth display
  http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/data/composites/plot20thc.kml.new.pl
• NWS Doppler - National Mosaic
  http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge2/
• The Estuarine Bathymetry site has bathymetry for 70 estuaries served up, including a GE visualization file- NOS
  http://estuarinebathymetry.noaa.gov/
  • Here's the overall index file:
    http://estuarinebathymetry.noaa.gov/kml/estuarine_bathy_loc.kmz
  • Here's one of the 70:
    http://estuarinebathymetry.noaa.gov/kml/M090.kmz
• Coral Reef - NESDIS
  http://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite/ge/
• NOAA Observing Systems - NESDIS
  http://www.nosa.noaa.gov/google_earth.html
• RIDGE radar imageswith NWS Polygon warnings in KML format
  http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge/kmzgenerator.php
• NWS GIS Data (KML)
  http://www.srh.noaa.gov/gis/kml
• NMFS South West Fisheries Science Center Research Cruises (KML)
  http://swfsc.noaa.gov/textblock.aspx?Division=PRD&ParentMenuId=276&id=1514
• NWS Tulsa KML files (KML)
  http://www.srh.noaa.gov/tsa/xmlFiles.htm
• NWS National Snow Analyses 3D Interface (KML)
  http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/earth/
• NOAA NVODS
  http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/NVODS/servlets/dataset
  to get these products:
  • by Dataset Name
  • COADS monthly climatology
  • Air temperature
  • Select output: choose 'Plot to Google Earth' or 'Time Serires or Vertical Profiles from Google Earth'
• NOAA Fisheries Oceanography model data in 3D in Google Earth - Al Hermann
  http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/people/hermann/hpcc2007/bath-and-floats.kmz
  http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/people/hermann/hpcc2007/surfaces_-161_-155_50_60_tempzc.kmz
  http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/people/hermann/hpcc2007/surfaces_-155_-145_50_60_tempzc.kmz
  http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/people/hermann/hpcc2007/surfaces_-145_-135_50_60_tempzc.kmz
• NOAA Observing System data
  http://dapper.pmel.noaa.gov/dchart/
  • Creates KLM on the fly for in-situ and gridded datasets for display/animation in GE
    Insitu - Select Argo realtime floats
  • Gridded - Ocean Gridded - select OSCAR - zonal current anomalies around time of 1997-8 ENSO warming event
• NOAA HYSPLIT - models atmospheric dispersion and deposition - products displayed in Google Earth
  http://www.arl.noaa.gov/ready/hysp_exmpl.html
• NOAA (ocean) Observing System Monitoring Center
  http://osmc.noaa.gov/Monitor/OSMC/OSMC.html
• click the "View on Google Earth" button (view on Google Maps also in the next version)

Google Presentations at AGU and AMS:

• AGU This link (http://conferences.images.alaska.edu/agu/) may be interesting to some people.
  It a collection of the presentations on virtual globes at AGU (2006 and 2007).
  Most of them are about using Google Earth.
• AMS had a virtual globes session too,
  http://ams.confex.com/ams/88Annual/techprogram/session_21095.htm and http://ams.confex.com/ams/88Annual/techprogram/session_21847.htm
  Recorded presentations on-line...

PMEL Google Earth Demos:

• Tsunami
  • Detailed Ocean Shores, WA tsunami Inundation (research product)
    • Google Earth - very dramatic, but takes a while to load...
    • QuickTime - for comparison [139.6 MB file]
    • Details: The NOAA Center for Tsunami Research modeled tsunami inundation from a great Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake for the coastal communities of Long Beach and Ocean Shores, Washington. A high-resolution numerical model was used to estimate tsunami propagation and inundation along the outer coast of southwest Washington. The tsunami source is based on prior work by Walsh et al., (2000) that simulates a great Mw 9.1 earthquake with an asperity off the coast of northern Washington. Details of this scenario and the model results are provided in Venturato et al., 2007. These animations depict wave propagation and inundation at each location.
  • Examples from WebSIFT (INTERNAL) - Chris Moore
• FOCI in-situ data - Peggy Sullivan
  http://dapper.pmel.noaa.gov/dchart/ - creates KLM on the fly for in-situ and gridded datasets for display/animation in GE
  • Insitu - Select Argo realtime floats
  • Gridded - Ocean Gridded - select OSCAR - zonal current anomalies around time of 1997-8 ENSO warming event
• Power outage on Vashon Island (QuickTime captured from GE) - John "Oz" Osborne
• LAS - Jing Yang Li
  plot_to_GE.km
  timeSeries_from_GE.kml
  OR
  go to NVODS at http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/NVODS/servlets/dataset to get these products:
  --->by Dataset Name
  --->COADS monthly climatology
  --->Air temperature
  --->Select output: choose 'Plot to Google Earth' or 'Time Serires or Vertical Profiles from Google Earth'
• FOCI model data in 3D in Google Earth - Al Hermann
  http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/people/hermann/hpcc2007/bath-and-floats.kmz
  http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/people/hermann/hpcc2007/surfaces_-161_-155_50_60_tempzc.kmz
  http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/people/hermann/hpcc2007/surfaces_-155_-145_50_60_tempzc.kmz
  http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/people/hermann/hpcc2007/surfaces_-145_-135_50_60_tempzc.kmz
• Bathymetry of the Pacific grid as polygons (from Clint Pells)
  http://talon:8080/ge/bathymetry.kml - Zoom in on the Austrailian coast.
• Tsunami - Vector-based views (wave height grids and flow vectors) of SIM results in Google Earth (from Chris Chamberlin)
    http://onda.pmel.noaa.gov/~chrisc/GE/ (INTERNAL)

(INTERNAL)

PMEL Developer Forum Date/Time

• Thursday, 21 February 2008 at 2:00 pm in PMEL Seminar room

The Email list for PMEL staff interested in IT issues

• available as oar.pmel.it.staff@noaa.gov
• membership is shown at
  http://intranet.pmel.noaa.gov/cnsdinfo/tools/ldap-lookup/display_group2.php?group=_OAR%20PMEL%20IT%20Staff