In this example we will show how to benefit from OPeNDAP subsetting. We will request subsets from worldwide digital elevevation maps (DEMs) that are too big to request as a whole: resulting in approx. 500 MB (over 10,000 x 20,000 points) or 2 GB (over 20,000 x 40,000) for respectively a 1 minute or 30 second grids.
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_varget(url_line,'lon'); L.lat = nc_varget(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
nc_dump(ncfile) G.lon = nc_varget(ncfile,'lon' ); % 1D G.lat = nc_varget(ncfile,'lat' ); % 1D
- Find the subset-indices within the bounding box
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]
stride = [1 1]; % additionally specify a stride when the subset is still too big start = [min(ilat)-1 min(ilon)-1]; % subtract one as netCDF is 0-based, whereas matlab is 1-bases count = ceil([length(ilat) length(ilon)]./stride); % use ceil to cover at least bounding box area
- Request data subset
G.lat = nc_varget(ncfile,'lat' ,start(1),count(1),stride(1)); % 1D G.lon = nc_varget(ncfile,'lon' ,start(2),count(2),stride(2)); % 1D G.topo = nc_varget(ncfile,'topo',start(:),count(:),stride(:)); % 2D G.title = nc_attget(ncfile,nc_global,'title')
- Plot data subset
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).
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