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Add snctools http://mexcdf.sourceforge.net/, shipped with OpenEarthTools

run('...\openearthtools\matlab\oetsettings.m')

Worl digital elevation maps: Define data on an opendap server. These are 6 free datasets, which we will compare for the Southern North Sea. Please compare them to non-open datasets such as GEBCO. For details on the processing of the 6 DEM's, please refer to the meta-data in the THREDDS OPeNDPA server provided by USGS/WHOI.

url_grid{1} = 'http://geoport.whoi.edu/thredds/dodsC/bathy/etopo1_bed_g2';
url_grid{2} = 'http://geoport.whoi.edu/thredds/dodsC/bathy/etopo2_v2c.nc';
url_grid{3} = 'http://geoport.whoi.edu/thredds/dodsC/bathy/srtm30plus_v1.nc';
url_grid{4} = 'http://geoport.whoi.edu/thredds/dodsC/bathy/srtm30plus_v6';
url_grid{5} = 'http://geoport.whoi.edu/thredds/dodsC/bathy/smith_sandwell_v9.1.nc';
url_grid{6} = 'http://geoport.whoi.edu/thredds/dodsC/bathy/smith_sandwell_v11';

url_line    = 'http://opendap.deltares.nl/thredds/dodsC/opendap/noaa/gshhs/gshhs_i.nc';

World vector shoreline: Get line data: 1D vectors are small, so we can get all data

nc_dump(url_line)
L.lon    = nc_vargetncread(url_line,'lon');
L.lat    = nc_vargetncread(url_line,'lat');

Define bounding box

boundingbox.lon = [ 0 10];
boundingbox.lat = [50 55];

for i=1:length(url_grid)

   ncfile = url_grid{i}

• Get full lat,lon vectors: 1D vectors are small, so we can get all data

  Code Block
  nc_dump(ncfile) G.lon = nc_vargetncread(ncfile,'lon' ); % 1D G.lat = nc_vargetncread(ncfile,'lat' ); % 1D

• Find the subset-indices within the bounding box

  Code Block
  ilon = find(G.lon > boundingbox.lon(1) & G.lon < boundingbox.lon(2)); ilat = find(G.lat > boundingbox.lat(1) & G.lat < boundingbox.lat(2));

• ranslate subset-indices to netCDF argument: [start,count,stride]

  Code Block
  stride = [1 1]; % additionally specify a stride when the subset is still too big start = [min(ilatilon)-1 min(ilonilat)-1]; % subtract one as netCDF is 0-based, whereas matlab is 1-basesbased count = ceil([length(ilatilon) length(ilonilat)]./stride); % use ceil to cover at least bounding box area

• Request data subset

  Code Block
  G.lat = nc_vargetncread(ncfile,'lat' ,start(12),count(12),stride(12)); % 1D G.lon = nc_vargetncread(ncfile,'lon' ,start(21),count(21),stride(21)); % 1D G.topo = nc_vargetncread(ncfile,'topo',start(:),count(:),stride(:)); % 2D G.title = nc_attgetncreadatt(ncfile,nc_global'/','title')

• Plot data subset

  Code Block
  figure(i) pcolorcorcen(G.lon,G.lat,G.topo') hold on plot(L.lon,L.lat,'k') axis([boundingbox.lon boundingbox.lat]) tickmap('ll','texttype','text','dellast',1) axislat % sets aspect ratio grid on clim ([-50 150]) title(mktex(G.title)) colorbarwithvtext('z [m]') print2screensize(mkvar(G.title))

end

Download the code of this Matlab example (repos,manual download). We also have a script that rewrites the GEBCO 1D vector matrix to a proper 2D lat,lon matrix with the same lay-out as the above OPeNDAP sets. (repos,manual download).