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Dataset Title:	North Pole Web Cam Images, Full
Institution:	NOAA PMEL (Dataset ID: northpole_webcam_full)
Range:	time = 2002-04-28 to 2011-10-13
Information:	Summary \| License \| Metadata \| Background \| Subset \| Data Access Form

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Things You Can Do With Your Graphs

Well, you can do anything you want with your graphs, of course. But some things you might not have considered are:

Web page authors can embed a graph of the latest data in a web page using HTML <img> tags.
Anyone can use ERDDAPs Slide Sorter to build a personal web page that displays graphs with the latest data (or other images or HTML content), each in its own, draggable slide.

The Dataset Attribute Structure (.das) for this Dataset

Attributes {
 s {
  filename {
    String fileAccessBaseUrl "https://data.pmel.noaa.gov/pmel/erddap/files/northpole_webcam_images/";
    String fileAccessSuffix ".jpg";
    String long_name "Filename";
  }
  camname {
    String long_name "Camname";
  }
  year {
    Int16 _FillValue 32767;
    Int16 actual_range 2002, 2011;
    String long_name "Year";
  }
  time {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Time";
    Float64 actual_range 1.019952e+9, 1.318464e+9;
    String axis "T";
    String ioos_category "Time";
    String long_name "Date";
    String source_name "date";
    String standard_name "time";
    String time_origin "01-JAN-1970 00:00:00";
    String time_precision "1970-01-01";
    String units "seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z";
  }
  time2 {
    String long_name "Time";
    String standard_name "time";
  }
  moods {
    Byte _FillValue 127;
    String _Unsigned "false";
    Byte actual_range 0, 1;
    String long_name "Moods";
  }
  quality {
    Byte _FillValue 127;
    String _Unsigned "false";
    Byte actual_range -1, 1;
    Float64 colorBarMaximum 150.0;
    Float64 colorBarMinimum 0.0;
    String long_name "Quality";
  }
 }
  NC_GLOBAL {
    String cdm_data_type "Other";
    String Conventions "COARDS, CF-1.10, ACDD-1.3";
    String creator_email "pmel.info@noaa.gov";
    String creator_name "NOAA PMEL";
    String creator_type "institution";
    String creator_url "https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/";
    String history 
"2025-07-20T19:29:26Z (local files)
2025-07-20T19:29:26Z https://data.pmel.noaa.gov/pmel/tabledap/northpole_webcam_full.das";
    String infoUrl "https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/arctic-zone/gallery_np.html";
    String institution "NOAA PMEL";
    String keywords "cam, camname, data, date, environmental, filename, full, images, laboratory, marine, master, moods, noaa, north, observations, oceanographic, pacific, pmel, pole, quality, set, time, time2, web, year";
    String license "These data were produced by NOAA and are not subject to copyright protection in the United States. NOAA waives any potential copyright and related rights in these data worldwide through the Creative Commons Zero 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication (CC0-1.0).";
    String sourceUrl "(local files)";
    String standard_name_vocabulary "CF Standard Name Table v70";
    String subsetVariables "year, quality, moods, camname";
    String summary "NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) North Pole webcam images from 2002-2011.";
    String time_coverage_end "2011-10-13";
    String time_coverage_start "2002-04-28";
    String title "North Pole Web Cam Images, Full";
  }
}

Using tabledap to Request Data and Graphs from Tabular Datasets

tabledap lets you request a data subset, a graph, or a map from a tabular dataset (for example, buoy data), via a specially formed URL. tabledap uses the OPeNDAP (external link)

Data Access Protocol (DAP) (external link)

and its selection constraints (external link)

The URL specifies what you want: the dataset, a description of the graph or the subset of the data, and the file type for the response.

(easy) You can get data by using the dataset's Data Access Form or Subset form. They make the URL for you.
(easy) You can make a graph or map by using the dataset's Make A Graph form. It makes the URL for you.
(not hard) You can bypass the forms and get the data or make a graph or map by generating the URL by hand or with a computer program or script.

Tabledap request URLs must be in the form
https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/tabledap/datasetID.fileType{?query}
For example,
https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/tabledap/pmelTaoDySst.htmlTable?longitude,latitude,time,station,wmo_platform_code,T_25&time>=2015-05-23T12:00:00Z&time<=2015-05-31T12:00:00Z
Thus, the query is often a comma-separated list of desired variable names, followed by a collection of constraints (e.g., variable<value), each preceded by '&' (which is interpreted as "AND").

For details, see the tabledap Documentation.

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