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Dataset Title:  Distance to Nearest Coastline: 0.01-Degree Grid Subscribe RSS
Institution:  NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group (OBPG)   (Dataset ID: dist2coast_1deg)
Information:  Summary ? | License ? | FGDC | ISO 19115 | Metadata | Background (external link) | Make a graph
 
Dimensions ? Start ? Stride ? Stop ?  Size ?    Spacing ?
 latitude (degrees_north) ?      18000    -0.01 (even)
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 longitude (degrees_east) ?      36000    0.01 (even)
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Grid Variables (which always also download all of the dimension variables) 
 dist (distance to nearest coastline, km) ?

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The Dataset Attribute Structure (.das) for this Dataset

Attributes {
  latitude {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Lat";
    Float32 actual_range -89.99, 90.0;
    String axis "Y";
    String ioos_category "Location";
    String long_name "Latitude";
    String standard_name "latitude";
    String units "degrees_north";
  }
  longitude {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Lon";
    Float32 actual_range -180.0, 179.99;
    String axis "X";
    String ioos_category "Location";
    String long_name "Longitude";
    String standard_name "longitude";
    String units "degrees_east";
  }
  dist {
    Int16 _FillValue 0;
    Float64 colorBarMaximum 2635.0;
    Float64 colorBarMinimum -2446.0;
    String ioos_category "Location";
    String long_name "distance to nearest coastline";
    String units "km";
  }
  NC_GLOBAL {
    String acknowledgement "The Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS) is funded through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as a Regional Association within the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS). PacIOOS is coordinated by the University of Hawaii School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST).";
    String cdm_data_type "Grid";
    String comment "These data are provided by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Ocean Biology Processing Group (OBPG).";
    String contributor_email "richard.stumpf@noaa.gov";
    String contributor_institution "NOAA National Ocean Service (NOS)";
    String contributor_name "Richard P. Stumpf";
    String contributor_role "originator";
    String contributor_type "person";
    String Conventions "CF-1.6, ACDD-1.3";
    String creator_institution "NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group (OBPG)";
    String creator_name "NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group (OBPG)";
    String creator_type "institution";
    String creator_url "https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov";
    String date_created "2012-03-19";
    String date_issued "2012-03-19";
    String date_metadata_modified "2021-03-29";
    String date_modified "2012-03-19";
    String drawLandMask "under";
    Float64 Easternmost_Easting 179.99;
    String geospatial_bounds "POLYGON ((-90.0 -180.0, 90.0 -180.0, 90.0 180.0, -90.0 180.0, -90.0 -180.0))";
    String geospatial_bounds_crs "EPSG:4326";
    Float64 geospatial_lat_max 90.0;
    Float64 geospatial_lat_min -89.99;
    Float64 geospatial_lat_resolution 0.01;
    String geospatial_lat_units "degrees_north";
    Float64 geospatial_lon_max 179.99;
    Float64 geospatial_lon_min -180.0;
    Float64 geospatial_lon_resolution 0.01;
    String geospatial_lon_units "degrees_east";
    String history 
"2012-03-19T00:00:00Z Downloaded GeoTIFF from NASA/GSFC and converted to NetCDF (J. Maurer).
2024-11-21T16:41:15Z https://pae-paha.pacioos.hawaii.edu/thredds/dodsC/dist2coast_1deg
2024-11-21T16:41:15Z https://pae-paha.pacioos.hawaii.edu/erddap/griddap/dist2coast_1deg.das";
    String id "dist2coast_1deg";
    String infoUrl "https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/distfromcoast/";
    String institution "NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group (OBPG)";
    String instrument "Not Applicable > Not Applicable";
    String instrument_vocabulary "GCMD Instrument Keywords";
    String ISO_Topic_Categories "location";
    String keywords "Earth Science > Oceans > Coastal Process > Shorelines";
    String keywords_vocabulary "GCMD Science Keywords";
    String license "The data may be used and redistributed for free but is not intended for legal use, since it may contain inaccuracies. Neither the data Contributor, University of Hawaii, PacIOOS, NOAA, State of Hawaii nor the United States Government, nor any of their employees or contractors, makes any warranty, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness, of this information.";
    String locations "Geographic Region > Global";
    String locations_vocabulary "GCMD Location Keywords";
    String metadata_link "https://www.pacioos.hawaii.edu/metadata/dist2coast_1deg.html";
    String naming_authority "org.pacioos";
    Float64 Northernmost_Northing 90.0;
    String platform "Models/Analyses > Data Analysis";
    String platform_vocabulary "GCMD Platform Keywords";
    String program "Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS)";
    String project "Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS)";
    String publisher_email "info@pacioos.org";
    String publisher_institution "Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS)";
    String publisher_name "Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS)";
    String publisher_type "institution";
    String publisher_url "http://www.pacioos.hawaii.edu";
    String references "https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/distfromcoast/";
    String source "Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Shoreline Database (GSHHS)";
    String sourceUrl "https://pae-paha.pacioos.hawaii.edu/thredds/dodsC/dist2coast_1deg";
    Float64 Southernmost_Northing -89.99;
    String standard_name_vocabulary "CF Standard Name Table v39";
    String summary "A global data set of distances from the nearest coastline. Negative distances represent locations over land (including land-locked bodies of water), while positive distances represent the ocean. NASA's Ocean Biology Processing Group (OBPG) generated this data set using the Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) software package. Distances were computed with GMT using its intermediate-resolution coastline and then gridded globally at a spatial resolution of 0.04 degrees. Bilinear interpolation was then applied to increase the spatial resolution to 0.01 degrees. There is an uncertainty of up to 1 km in the computed distance at any given point.";
    String time_coverage_duration "P0D";
    String time_coverage_resolution "P0D";
    String title "Distance to Nearest Coastline: 0.01-Degree Grid";
    Float64 Westernmost_Easting -180.0;
  }
}

 

Using griddap to Request Data and Graphs from Gridded Datasets

griddap lets you request a data subset, graph, or map from a gridded dataset (for example, sea surface temperature data from a satellite), via a specially formed URL. griddap uses the OPeNDAP (external link) Data Access Protocol (DAP) (external link) and its projection constraints (external link).

The URL specifies what you want: the dataset, a description of the graph or the subset of the data, and the file type for the response.

griddap request URLs must be in the form
https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/griddap/datasetID.fileType{?query}
For example,
https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/griddap/jplMURSST41.htmlTable?analysed_sst[(2002-06-01T09:00:00Z)][(-89.99):1000:(89.99)][(-179.99):1000:(180.0)]
Thus, the query is often a data variable name (e.g., analysed_sst), followed by [(start):stride:(stop)] (or a shorter variation of that) for each of the variable's dimensions (for example, [time][latitude][longitude]).

For details, see the griddap Documentation.


 
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