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on a Windows PC. The package can be used
to create and manage large sets of proxy and
(pale)oceanographic data and provides tools for
easy exploration and the graphical display of these
data as property/property plots, color sections and
color distributions on isosurfaces (Fig. 6). The data
collection format of ODV is optimized for dense
storage and direct data access allowing the storage oflarge station collections on desktop computers. ODV can be called from PANGAEA after retrieving a data set which will then be exported in
the format used by ODV.
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A problem when importing meta-data is the inconsistency of using site labels and the different formats when reporting positions. A PANGAEA
toolbox routine allows the conversion of any latitude/longitude format to that used by PANGAEA.
After conversion of the position, the new sites can
be compared with the contents of the database to
determine duplicates or to look for alias labels.
The software used to calculate the parameters
for paleoenvironmental reconstructions (e.g.
paleotemperature) from proxy data (microfossil
assemblages) with transfer functions (Imbrie and
Kipp 1971) was converted for use on a Macintosh
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Fig. 6. The oceanographic software Ocean Data View (ODV), available on Windows platforms, can also be linked
to PANGAEA. ODV draws data in depth/time slices or in sections. Simple interpolation routines are included in the
software. In the sections given, the oxygen and phosphate concentrations are plotted along a N-S transect through
the western South Atlantic.