Document Type
Article
Department/Program
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Publication Date
10-30-2020
Journal
Journal of Open Source Software
Volume
5
Issue
54
First Page
2497
Abstract
ocean_data_tools simplifies the process of extracting, formatting, and visualizing freely-available oceanographic data. A wealth of oceanographic data (from research cruises, autonomous floats, global ocean models, etc.) is accessible online. However, many oceanographers and environmental scientists (particularly those from subdisciplines not accustomed to working with large datasets) can be dissuaded from utilizing this data because of the overhead associated with determining how to batch download data and format it into easily-manipulable data structures. ocean_data_tools solves this problem by allowing the user to transform common oceanographic data sources into uniform structure arrays, call general functions on these structure arrays, perform custom calculations, and make graphics.
DOI
doi: 10.21105/joss.02497
Keywords
oceanographic data, software, MATLAB
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Ferris, Laur, ocean_data_tools: A MATLAB toolbox for interacting with bulk freely-available oceanographic data (2020). Journal of Open Source Software, 5(54), 2497.
doi: 10.21105/joss.02497
