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.

QuikScat

PODAAC provides the data and m-files to read it.

At http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/DATA_PRODUCT/OVW/index.html#quikscat

Download the matlab m-files, and get the datafiles from Level 3 daily, 0.25 degree at ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/ocean_wind/quikscat/L3/data/.

Note, QuikScat ended in Nov 2009. I have heard that CCMP, also available on the JPL website, is a pretty good substitution. It is a blended product from several satellites.