[Staging #FJY-535537]: Blended SST retrieve - Doubt

You might try

http://code.google.com/p/nctoolbox/

for matlab opendap access.

John

> Hi Tom,
> 
> Thank you very much for the instructions.
> 
> I've tried to install a OPenDAP Matlab Client here, but I wasn't successful.
> 
> We have Matlab version 2006a, and therefore I've tried to install loaddap
> version 3.6.1.
> But what happend is that I couldn't install the libdap-3.8.1 library
> (required by loaddap), and so wasn't able to proceed.
> 
> 
> Additionally, ncdump is not working here as you mentioned on the last
> message. Apparently, this is problem with our Internet connection.
> 
> Anyway, ultimately I could download the data, using the parameters you gave
> me, in the ASCII format.
> We don't have a operational data retrieve system yet, but we are able to
> download the data using this approach.
> 
> Again, Thank you very much for the attention.
> 
> 
> Best regards from Brazil
> 
> 2010/7/27 Unidata THREDDS Support <address@hidden>
> 
> > Hi Ricardo,
> >
> > re:
> > > This is the website I am trying to retrieve the data:
> > >
> > >
> > http://ourocean.jpl.nasa.gov:8080/thredds/dodsC/g1sst/sst_20100725.nc.html
> >
> > OK, thanks.
> >
> > There are two ways to do what you want:
> >
> > - install OPeNDAP client software that will allow you to programmatically
> >  request the data.  I just used the Unidata IDV to access the data off
> >  of the OPeNDAP server you provided and was able to plot the SST values
> >  and save the values plotted to a disk file.
> >
> > - specify the subset of the data manually through the web page you
> > reference
> >  above.
> >
> >  This approach will be more difficult since the control for selecting a
> > subdomain
> >  for the data is in index space, not LatxLon space.  The good news,
> > however, is
> >  that the mapping from index space to LatxLon space appears
> > straightforward:
> >
> >             Index        Degrees
> >  Longitude: 0..35999     -180..180
> >  Latitude:  0..15999     -80..80
> >
> >  So, there are 100 points per degree in both Latitude and Longitude.
> >
> > - you can download this data as a netcdf file using ncdump from the current
> >  netcdf release (4.1.2)
> >
> >  The following command would show how this file will look when accessed
> > thru ncdump:
> >
> >  ncdump -h ncdump ncdump "
> > http://ourocean.jpl.nasa.gov:8080/thredds/dodsC/g1sst/sst_20100725.nc";
> >
> >  This should produce the following output:
> >
> > netcdf sst_20100725 {
> > dimensions:
> >        time = UNLIMITED ; // (1 currently)
> >        lat = 16000 ;
> >        lon = 36000 ;
> > variables:
> >        float time(time) ;
> >                time:unit = "hours since 1981-01-01 00:00:00" ;
> >        float lon(lon) ;
> >                lon:long_name = "longitude" ;
> >                lon:standard_name = "longitude" ;
> >                lon:axis = "X" ;
> >                lon:units = "degrees_east" ;
> >        float lat(lat) ;
> >                lat:long_name = "latitude" ;
> >                lat:standard_name = "latitude" ;
> >                lat:axis = "Y" ;
> >                lat:units = "degrees_north" ;
> >        short SST(time, lat, lon) ;
> >                SST:missingValue = -32768 ;
> >                SST:add_offset = 273.15 ;
> >                SST:scale_factor = 0.01 ;
> >                SST:_FillValue = -32768s ;
> >        byte data_days(lat, lon) ;
> >                data_days:missingValue = -99s ;
> >                data_days:_FillValue = -99b ;
> >
> > // global attributes:
> >                :history = "Sun Sep 21 20:25:02 2008: ncatted -a
> > fillValue,SST,d,, global_1km_02_short.nc\n",
> >                        "Sun Sep 21 20:16:06 2008: ncatted -a
> > _FillValue,SST,c,s,-32768 global_1km_02_short.nc" ;
> > }
> >
> >  We can access, say the variable SST within the specified bounding box by
> >  defining a constraint expression:
> >      ?SST[0:0][4000:8000][13000:15000]
> >  Remember that the dimensions are zero-based, so if the arithmetic is
> > correct
> >  the lat range [-40,0] should correspond to the index range [4000,8000]
> >  and the lon range [-50,-30] should correspond to the index range
> > [13000:15000].
> >
> >  This subset of data can then be downloaded using ncdump using this
> > command:
> >    ncdump "
> > http://ourocean.jpl.nasa.gov:8080/thredds/dodsC/g1sst/sst_20100725.nc?SST[0:0][4000:8000][13000:15000]
> >
> > As you can see, there are several options for getting the data.  The most
> > useful
> > of these would probably be to adopt the use of an application that supports
> > direct, programmatic access to data hosted on OPeNDAP servers.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Tom
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