The following list of no-cost data manipulation tools are useful for working with GHRSST-PP netCDF data files

• Bzip2 decompressor (windows: http://www.7-zip.org/) or Bzip2 project pages at http://www.bzip.org/ 
• Unidata netCDF programming library for C, C++, FORTRAN, Java, Perl, MATLAB, Python and Ruby. These are the definitive libraries for netCDF.
• The netCDF Climate Forecast (CF) convention used by GHRSST-PP
• The Windows and UNIX ncview visual browswer for netCDF files
• Windows based UNESCO Bilko satellite image processing system
• Unidata list of netCDF software for manipulating or displaying netCDF data can be found here

Software for GDS-v1.5 L2P and L4 data files

The C4 Integrated Data System (CIDS) at the Center for Clouds Chemistry and Climate University of California, San Diego provides a useful set of routines for programmers that will create read routines for netCDF files. See http://www-c4.ucsd.edu/~cids/software/visual.html for more details. 

The following software routines will read GHRSST-PP GDS-v1.5 compliant L2P and L4 data files

 

• C code: ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/GHRSST/software
• FORTRAN code: L2P example L4 example (Not yet available)
• IDL code: L2P example L4 example and also ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/GHRSST/software
• MATLAB code: L2P example L4 example (Not yet available)

Software for MDB data records

The following software routines will read GHRSST-PP GDS-v1.5 compliant MDB data records

• C code: MDB example (Not yet available)
• FORTRAN code: MDB example (Not yet available)
• IDL code: MDB example (Not yet available)
• MATLAB code: MDB example (Not yet available)

Software for GDS-v1.5 HR-DDS data files

The following software routines will read GHRSST-PP GDS-v1.5 compliant HR-DDS data records

• C code: HR-DDS example
• FORTRAN code: HR-DDS example
• IDL code: HR-DDS example
• MATLAB code: HR-DDS example