LAS 6

How to use the LAS 6.

If you don’t know what datasets are available at the APDRC, there are several ways to discovery data.  They are described in How to search for data.

Select a dataset on a LAS 6 page:

If for example, you wish to access NLOM Nowcast sea surface height data on the public server, you would select public then "Assimilated Model Output" followed by "NRL NLOM 1/16deg Nowcast".  The URL bar will look like this:

Select SSH:

This first example shows how to make a XY plot. Select the geography region and times of interest:

This next example shows how to download a NetCDF file. Please be aware of the size of the resulting NetCDF file. You may have to make several files divided in time or space. Select the geography region and times of interest:

The following example shows how to make time plot for a station dataset. Select 1 station in the dataset UH Sea Level daily: