Downloading World Ocean Atlas 2009 and Loading it into Matlab
Online Oceanographic Datasets and Data products
If the code or instructions below are helpful to you, I'd love to hear
it. Always nice to know whether it's worthwhile to put these kinds of
instructions online. (Send me an e-mail at the address above.)
Even better, if you encounter and fix a relevant data-access issue that
isn't
in the "troubleshooting" below, let me know so I can add it to the
page.
For geographic and temporal extraction go to geographic and temporal
extraction page. Scrolling down the page, choose your poison. These use the same codes as above, DT/NRT and
MADT/MSLA. Make sure you're global unless there's a specific region you fall into that they focus on (like
mediterranean).
Click your choice
Choose "Downloading and extraction service" to follow the rest of these instructions. If you're
familiar with OpenDAP that might be a better option for you.
Fill out the form keeping "netcdf" as the format, filling in the appropriate lat/lon limits, and the
time range of your choice. Check both the Grid_0002 and Grid_0001 boxes.
Click "Download"
Save the file, which includes little tags to indicate what data you chose
Use the script to convert to a matlab structure here: load_aviso_uv_scr.m. Change the
appropriate file names, latlon limits and export filename according to what you filled into the form.
