Ferris, L., (2020). ocean_data_tools: A MATLAB toolbox for interacting with bulk freely-available oceanographic data. Journal of Open Source Software, 5(54), 2497, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.02497
Abstract
A MATLAB toolbox for interacting with bulk freely-available oceanographic data.
ocean_data_tools simplifies the process of extracting, formatting, and visualizing freely-available oceanographic data. While a wealth of oceanographic data is accessible online, some end-users may be dissuaded from utilizing this data due to the overhead associated with obtaining and formatting it into usable data structures. ocean_data_tools solves this problem by allowing the user to transform common oceanographic data sources into uniform structs, call generalized functions on these structs, easily perform custom calculations, and make graphics.