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Access Data
To learn more about how to access UAF data from the tool you prefer click on one of the logos below. If your favorite tool is not listed below please contact us so that it can be added. |
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ERDDAP is a data server that gives you a simple, consistent way to download subsets of the UAF datasets in common file formats and make graphs and maps. ERDDAP offers you:
- More Search Options
- More File Formats - ERDDAP gives you the ability to download subsets of the datasets in many common file formats (for example, .html table, ESRI .asc for ArcGIS, Google Earth .kml, Matlab .mat, NetCDF .nc, OPeNDAP .asc and .dods, .csv, .tsv, .json, and .xhtml) instead of just the OPeNDAP ASCII and binary formats.
- Custom Graphs and Maps - ERDDAP gives you the ability to make customized graphs and maps. (Use a search option above, then use the Make A Graph option for one of the datasets.)
- A WMS service for many of the UAF datasets. (This is different from the WMS services in THREDDS.)
For a quick introduction to ERDDAP, watch the first half of this 
video
(5 minutes).
In it, a scientist downloads ocean currents forecast data from ERDDAP to model a toxic spill in the ocean using NOAA's GNOME software (in 5 minutes!). Thanks to Rich Signell. (One tiny error in the video: when searching for datasets, don't use AND between search terms. It is implicit.)
NCO is a suite of programs known as operators. The operators facilitate manipulation and analysis of data stored in netCDF format. Each NCO operator takes netCDF input file(s), performs an operation (e.g., averaging, renaming), and outputs a processed netCDF file.
(ncBrowser is a Java application that provides flexible, interactive graphical displays of data and attributes from a wide range of netCDF data file conventions)
(Sample Screenshot)
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ToolUI is a GUI intrerface to much of the functionality in the CDM library, which reads many different binary file formats besides netCDF, such as HDF, GRIB, NEXRAD, etc, and makes the data accessible through a standard API. |
NCDUMP generates a text representation of a specified netCDF file on standard output. The text representation is in a form called CDL (..network Common Data form Language..) that can be viewed, edited, or serve as input to NCGEN. NCGEN is a companion program that can generate a binary netCDF file from a CDL file. Hence NCGEN and NCDUMP can be used as inverses to transform the data representation between binary and text representations. |
