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Developing a field experiment to study the different aspects of the marine
system involves both the co-operation of research groups from distinct disc
iplines and the use of various meteorological and oceanographical sensors d
eployed simultaneously at different locations. The information obtained, st
ored in voluminous data sets and frequently in various formats, needs to be
visualized and analysed in different ways to provide knowledge of the dyna
mics of the system examined. There is therefore need for tools to be able t
o: (i) access and retrieve data sets stored in various file formats, and (i
i) to allow their visualization and analysis. In this work, a user-friendly
visualization and analytical tool was developed for this purpose using the
IDL (Interactive Data Language v.5.3). It allows the description, interpre
tation and analysis of the temporal and spatial variability of both scalar
and vector variables. A description of the software is given and an applica
tion using data from the High Frequency Flux (HFF) experiment, part of the
European MTP II-Mater research project, in the Gulf of Lions is presented.
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