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Tonyforster
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Sea surface temperature mapping
Sea surface temperature mapping
Inspired by http://oceanpc.org this reads temperature data available at http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/sst/sst.html
Inspired by http://oceanpc.org this reads temperature data available at http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/sst/sst.html
The data format is described at ftp://eclipse.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/ersstv3b/README
The first record in the file reads:
-9999 -9999 -9999 -9999 -9999 -9999 -9999 -9999 -9999 -9999 -19 13 18 11 7 25 64 132 255 427 607 791 990 1198 1408 1616 1816 1999 2149 2258 2327 2360 2365 2355 2347 2359 2393 2443 2500 2568 2654 2736 2789 2826 2869 2904 2911 2903 -9999 -9999 -9999 -9999 -9999 -9999 -9999 -9999 -9999 -9999 -9999 -9999 -9999 -9999 -9999 1489 1432 -9999 -9999 -9999 -9999 -9999 713 -9999 656 715 780 796 744 669 596 476 298 156 113 70 -134 -180 -180 -180 -180
-9999 represents land, the other numbers are degreesC x100
This record represents a line running from the south pole through to the north pole in 2 degree increments at lattitude 0 for the first month and year. The next record is for lattitude 2 degrees east and so on.
=== Challenges ===
=== Challenges ===
* Display the other months and years in the file
* Display the other months and years in the file