Figure One: schematic flow chart of the server integration

Figure two: Beginning in the upper left and moving clockwise, a user comes to the APDRC web site, selects "Search for datasets", and gets directed to the Datasets page (panel 2). If the user then selects "ECCO-JPL Kalman Filter Assimilation" they get the THREDDS aggregation page (panel 3). Note here that the data is actually residing on a machine at JPL, not locally at the APDRC. Next, the user would select a variable (sea level in this example), and get the THREDDS catalogue page for the data set (panel 4). This provides the appropriate URL which can be read by IDV to interact with the data set (panel 5).