DUST: An interactive data visualization tool for selected atmospheric data

This paper describes the DUST-2 (Data Utilization software Tools) software, which is a possibility in visualizing and processing ozone and water vapor data of the Earth atmosphere as measured by satellite instruments (TOMS, C OME, MAS) and provided by different data centers. In addition, a new search tool (S-4 toot) which allows to search for comparable ozone and water vapo r data in four dimensions (location and time) within the DUST-2 data base a nd a hdf2csv conversion tool are represented. The software package as well as complementary information and data examples are published on CD-ROM ("Da ta Utilization Software Tools - 2", DUST-2, Hartmann et al. 2000) under ISB N 3-9804852-3-0 which is available via www.copernicus.org. (C) 2000 Publish ed by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.