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Dataset Title:  Ocean Heat Content Product Suite (North Atlantic), 0.25°   RSS
Institution:  NOAA NESDIS CoastWatch   (Dataset ID: noaacwOHCna)
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Things You Can Do With Your Graphs

Well, you can do anything you want with your graphs, of course. But some things you might not have considered are:

The Dataset Attribute Structure (.das) for this Dataset

Attributes {
  time {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Time";
    Float64 actual_range 1.5882048e+9, 1.705536e+9;
    String axis "T";
    String calendar "gregorian";
    String ioos_category "Time";
    String long_name "Time";
    String standard_name "time";
    String time_origin "01-JAN-1970 00:00:00";
    String units "seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z";
  }
  latitude {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Lat";
    Float32 actual_range 0.0, 60.0;
    String axis "Y";
    String ioos_category "Location";
    String long_name "Latitude";
    String standard_name "latitude";
    String units "degrees_north";
  }
  longitude {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Lon";
    Float32 actual_range -100.0, 0.0;
    String axis "X";
    String ioos_category "Location";
    String long_name "Longitude";
    String standard_name "longitude";
    String units "degrees_east";
  }
  ohc {
    Float32 _FillValue -999.0;
    Float64 colorBarMinimum 0.0;
    String grid_mapping "crs";
    String ioos_category "Temperature";
    String long_name "ocean heat content";
    Float32 missing_value -999.0;
    String standard_name "integral_of_sea_water_potential_temperature_wrt_depth_expressed_as_heat_content";
    String units "kJ cm^-2";
    Float32 valid_min 0.0;
  }
  sst {
    Float32 _FillValue -999.0;
    Float64 colorBarMaximum 32.0;
    Float64 colorBarMinimum 0.0;
    String grid_mapping "crs";
    String ioos_category "Temperature";
    String long_name "sea surface temperature";
    Float32 missing_value -999.0;
    String standard_name "sea_surface_temperature";
    String units "degree_Celsius";
  }
  ssha {
    Float32 _FillValue -999.0;
    Float64 colorBarMaximum 2.0;
    Float64 colorBarMinimum -2.0;
    String grid_mapping "crs";
    String ioos_category "Sea Level";
    String long_name "sea surface height above mean sea level";
    Float32 missing_value -999.0;
    String standard_name "sea_surface_height_above_mean_sea_level";
    String units "centimeter";
  }
  sshaE {
    Float32 _FillValue -999.0;
    Float64 colorBarMaximum 0.1;
    Float64 colorBarMinimum 0.0;
    String grid_mapping "crs";
    String ioos_category "Statistics";
    String long_name "error in objective analysis of sea surface height above mean sea level";
    Float32 missing_value -999.0;
    String units "1";
  }
  iso20C {
    Float32 _FillValue -999.0;
    Float64 colorBarMinimum 0.0;
    String grid_mapping "crs";
    String ioos_category "Dissolved O2";
    String long_name "depth of the 20 degree Celsius isotherm";
    Float32 missing_value -999.0;
    String standard_name "depth_of_isosurface_of_sea_water_potential_temperature";
    String units "meter";
    Float32 valid_min 0.0;
  }
  iso26C {
    Float32 _FillValue -999.0;
    Float64 colorBarMinimum 0.0;
    String grid_mapping "crs";
    String ioos_category "Dissolved O2";
    String long_name "depth of the 26 degree Celsius isotherm";
    Float32 missing_value -999.0;
    String standard_name "depth_of_isosurface_of_sea_water_potential_temperature";
    String units "meter";
    Float32 valid_min 0.0;
  }
  omld {
    Float32 _FillValue -999.0;
    Float64 colorBarMaximum 100.0;
    Float64 colorBarMinimum 0.0;
    String grid_mapping "crs";
    String ioos_category "Physical Oceanography";
    String long_name "ocean mixed layer thickness";
    Float32 missing_value -999.0;
    String standard_name "ocean_mixed_layer_thickness";
    String units "meter";
    Float32 valid_min 0.0;
  }
  landmask {
    String _Unsigned "false";
    Float64 colorBarMaximum 150.0;
    Float64 colorBarMinimum 0.0;
    String ioos_category "Identifier";
    String long_name "landmask";
    String standard_name "land_binary_mask";
    String units "1";
  }
  NC_GLOBAL {
    String cdm_data_type "Grid";
    String comment "NOAA OSPO Ocean Heat Content\\nhttps://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/ocean/ocean_heat.html.";
    String contact "Lynn K. Shay";
    String Conventions "CF-1.6, COARDS, ACDD-1.3";
    String creator_email "nshay@rsmas.miami.edu";
    String creator_name "University of Miami/Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science";
    String creator_type "institution";
    String creator_url "https://upper-ocean-dynamics.rsmas.miami.edu/";
    String data_source "USDOC/NOAA/NESDIS/OSPO";
    Float64 Easternmost_Easting 0.0;
    Float64 geospatial_lat_max 60.0;
    Float64 geospatial_lat_min 0.0;
    Float64 geospatial_lat_resolution 0.25;
    String geospatial_lat_units "degrees_north";
    Float64 geospatial_lon_max 0.0;
    Float64 geospatial_lon_min -100.0;
    Float64 geospatial_lon_resolution 0.25;
    String geospatial_lon_units "degrees_east";
    String history 
"2024-10-04T08:44:47Z http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/ocean/ocean_heat.html
2024-10-04T08:44:47Z https://coastwatch.noaa.gov/griddap/noaacwOHCna.das";
    String infoUrl "https://coastwatch.noaa.gov/thredds/dodsC/OHCNADailyAgg2020.html";
    String institution "NOAA NESDIS CoastWatch";
    String keywords "above, altimeter, analysis, binary, celsius, circulation, commerce, common, conservation, content, data, degree, department, depth, depth_of_isosurface_of_sea_water_potential_temperature, dissolved, dissolved o2, earth, Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Circulation > Ocean Mixed Layer, Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Potential Temperature, Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Sea Surface Temperature, Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Water Temperature, environmental, error, expressed, format, habitat, heat, heat content, height, hurricane, hurricane intensification, identifier, information, integral, integral_of_sea_water_potential_temperature_wrt_depth_expressed_as_heat_content, iso20C, iso26C, isosurface, isotherm, land, land_binary_mask, landmask, latitude, layer, level, longitude, mask, mean, mixed, mixed layer, national, nesdis, network, nmfs, noaa, O2, objective, ocean, ocean_mixed_layer_thickness, oceanography, oceans, office, ohc, ohcnadailyagg2020, omld, operations, osdpd, ospo, oxygen, physical, physical oceanography, potential, product, satellite, science, sea, sea level, sea_surface_height_above_mean_sea_level, sea_surface_temperature, seawater, service, ssh, ssha, sshaE, sst, states, statistics, suite, surface, temperature, thickness, time, united, usdoc, water, wrt";
    String keywords_vocabulary "GCMD Science Keywords";
    String license 
"The data may be used and redistributed for free but is not intended
for legal use, since it may contain inaccuracies. Neither the data
Contributor, ERD, NOAA, nor the United States Government, nor any
of their employees or contractors, makes any warranty, express or
implied, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a
particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability for the accuracy,
completeness, or usefulness, of this information.";
    String map_projection "Geographic";
    Float64 Northernmost_Northing 60.0;
    String origin "USDOC/NOAA/NESDIS/OSPO";
    String source_data "SMARTS Climatology+Altimeter SHA+GeoPolar Blended SST";
    String sourceUrl "http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/ocean/ocean_heat.html";
    Float64 Southernmost_Northing 0.0;
    String spatial_resolution "0.25 degree";
    String standard_name_vocabulary "CF Standard Name Table v32";
    String summary "The Satellite Ocean Heat Content (Office of Habitat Conservation (OHC)) Suite system produces two OHC files in ASCII and Network Common Data Format (NetCDF) where the output is defined on a 0.25 degree grid. For the daily files, the fields are: latitude, longitude, sea surface temperature (SST) in degrees Celsius, sea surface height anomaly (SSHA) in centimeters, mapping error, depths of 20degC (D20) and 26degC (D26) isotherms, ocean mixed layer depth (MLD), all in meters, and a satellite derived ocean heat content (OHC) in kJ/cm2. It runs once daily. OHC is mapped at 0.25 degree resolution with an accuracy within 10 to 15% of in situ data and a latency of 36 hours due to the receipt/processing required for the Sea Surface Height Anomaly data. Five GIF images were also to be created each day for OHC, SST, 20 degree isotherm, 26 degree isotherm, and Mixed Layer Depth.";
    String testOutOfDate "now-2days";
    String time_coverage_end "2024-01-18T00:00:00Z";
    String time_coverage_start "2020-04-30T00:00:00Z";
    String title "Ocean Heat Content Product Suite (North Atlantic), 0.25°";
    Float64 Westernmost_Easting -100.0;
  }
}

 

Using griddap to Request Data and Graphs from Gridded Datasets

griddap lets you request a data subset, graph, or map from a gridded dataset (for example, sea surface temperature data from a satellite), via a specially formed URL. griddap uses the OPeNDAP (external link) Data Access Protocol (DAP) (external link) and its projection constraints (external link).

The URL specifies what you want: the dataset, a description of the graph or the subset of the data, and the file type for the response.

griddap request URLs must be in the form
https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/griddap/datasetID.fileType{?query}
For example,
https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/griddap/jplMURSST41.htmlTable?analysed_sst[(2002-06-01T09:00:00Z)][(-89.99):1000:(89.99)][(-179.99):1000:(180.0)]
Thus, the query is often a data variable name (e.g., analysed_sst), followed by [(start):stride:(stop)] (or a shorter variation of that) for each of the variable's dimensions (for example, [time][latitude][longitude]).

For details, see the griddap Documentation.


 

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