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)

Arguments

filename

full path to unzipped netCDF data file

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

Value

A 2-dimensional matrix with latitudes in rows and longitudes in columns