Table 1 Some popular data visualisation software packages with the appropriate compatible GO-SHIP Easy Ocean format file.

From: GO-SHIP Easy Ocean: Gridded ship-based hydrographic section of temperature, salinity, and dissolved oxygen

Application

Reported

Gridded

Matlab

reported/P16/p16.mat

gridded/P16/p16.mat

Ocean Data View (http://odv.awi.de)

reported/P16/p16_2015_ct1.zip

—

JAVA Ocean Atlas (http://joa.ucsd.edu)

reported/P16/p16_2015_ct1.zip

—

GrADS (http://cola.gmu.edu/grads)

—

gridded/P16/p16.bin.ctl

binary

—

gridded/P16/p16.bin

ASCII

GMT (https://www.generic-mapping-tools.org)

reported/P16/p16_2015_ct1.zip

gridded/P16/p16_2015.xyz.gz

NetCDF

(work in progress)

gridded/P16/p16_2015.nc

  1. Example is shown for the P16 Section in 2014–2015, but is applicable to all sections.
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