Read and extract mean sea surface temperature data from NOAA's Optimum Interpolated Sea Surface Temperature (OISST) v2 High Resolution daily or weekly datasets.
read_oisst(filename, landsea_mask, long_w, long_e, lat_s, lat_n)
filename | full path to unzipped netCDF data file |
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landsea_mask | full path to land-sea mask netCDF file |
long_w | western-most longitude of search area, must be smaller than long_e |
long_e | (optional) eastern-most longitude of search area, must be larger than long_w |
lat_s | southern-most latitude of search area, must be smaller than lat_n |
lat_n | (optional) northern-most latitude of search area, must be larger than lat_s |
A 2-dimensional matrix with latitudes in rows and longitudes in columns