MATLAB routine for use with sea level data

A simple MATLAB script to read the netCDF file.

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% A simple Matlab script to read the BODC netcdf file.
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% Author: Nathan Bindoff
% Date: 28 March 2000
% The script uses Jim Mansbridge's netcdf routines for matlab.
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% Documentation and description of these routines can be found at 
% http://www.marine.csiro.au/sw/matlab-netcdf.html.
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% IMPORTANT NOTE: If you run into problems with this script, 
%                 it may be that you need to replace getcdf 
%                 with getnc. (getcdf was part of the earlier Matlab
%                 4.x CSIRO release, and the script should work if
%                 you use the old CSIRO software, which is still 
%                 available on the www). getnc is used with Matlab 5.
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% Read the BODC sea-level data 
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inqnc('b0033379')
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file='b0033379'
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sea_level=getcdf(file,'sea_level');
sea_level_quality_flag=getcdf(file,'sea_level_quality_flag');
woce_time_of_day=getcdf(file,'woce_time_of_day');
woce_time_of_day_quality_flag=getcdf(file,'woce_time_of_day_quality_flag');
woce_date=getcdf(file,'woce_date');
latitude=getcdf(file,'latitude');
longitude=getcdf(file,'longitude');
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%The 2 dimensions are  1) primary_dimension = 8760  2) position_dimension = 1.
%primary_dimension is unlimited in length
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%----- Get further information about the following variables -----
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%  -1) None of them (no further information)
%   0) All of the variables
%   1) sea_level              2) sea_level_quality_flag   3) woce_time_of_day
%   4) woce_time_of_day_quality_flag   5) woce_date     6) latitude
%   7) longitude