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Re: functions to access ETOPO2 or other bathymetric data sets? [message #49753]

Tue, 15 August 2006 17:14

Rick Towler
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Registered: August 1998

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Thanks Ken,

I'll probably hit you up for the 5 minute function if I get connected to
my database (previous post). If I can't get my data out of the database
there is little need for fancy bathymetric contours :( We're making
progress though...

-Rick

Kenneth Bowman wrote:
> In article <ebqg6m$539$1@news.nems.noaa.gov>,
> Rick Towler wrote:
>
>> Another post in with the hope of avoiding reinventing the wheel. Has
>> anyone developed functions to extract and or plot bathymetry/topography
>> data from the ETOPO2 database (http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds759.3/)?
>>
>> -Rick
>
> Rick,
>
> I have functions to read the 5-minute land-ocean and 10-minute land data sets.
> I don't know how similar these are to the ETOPO2 data. If you are interested,
> drop me a line at k-bowman at tamu.edu and I'll send them to you. They are
> quite short.
>
> I have been able to display the data in 3-D using iSurface
>
> http://csrp.tamu.edu/hiaper/archive/Version_4/502rf01/movie/ 502rf01_spin.mov
>
> That code is more than a bit ugly, but if you want it, I can send you the
> relevant pieces.
>
> Ken Bowman

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