Accessing Data

From IMOS-wiki

Much of the time series data in the Ocean Portal is held in netcdf file format

If you have matlab… get the matlab netcdf toolbox (free) If you don’t have matlab download and install Octave (a free version of something similar to Matlab) and the netcdf toolbox.

If you want to just get the data into a try http://netcdf4excel.free.fr/workbook.html This only works if there are less data points than excel can load, whereas the Octave and Matlab solutions will work with BIG files.

There are also a whole raft of netcdf tools such as ncbrowse (arcane, but useable)

It is the intention of the toolbox to allow it to read netcdf back in so all the functions available in the toolbox will be available for viewing netcdf.