Data Information and Help

Anonymous FTP

• How to FTP
• Create and FTP subsets
• Connect to our complete anonymous ftp site or our ftp site for the NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis
• Problems with FTP

Using OPeNDAP

Read or process data directly without FTP-ing files:

• THREDDS Catalog of Gridded Data
• Using OPeNDAP to Read Data
• OPeNDAP Documentation Page

About netCDF

• General Information
• Unidata netCDF Page

Read, Process and Plot Data

• Suggestions for reading our netCDF files
• Software packages that read and plot our netCDF files
• PSL data display and analysis tools
• General FORTRAN Code That Will Read Our Files
• Common problems with reading files

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