Data Access Form

Dataset Title:	Sea Surface Height, Aviso, Global, Science Quality (1 Day Composite)
Institution:	NOAA CoastWatch, West Coast Node (Dataset ID: erdTAssh1day)
Information:	Summary \| License \| FGDC \| ISO 19115 \| Metadata \| Background \| Make a graph

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Dimensions	Size	Spacing
time (Centered Time, UTC)	1254	5 days 20h 59m 34s (uneven)

altitude (m)	1	(just one value)

latitude (degrees_north)	721	0.25 (even)

longitude (degrees_east)	1440	0.25 (even)

Grid Variables (which always also download all of the dimension variables)

ssh (Sea Surface Height, m)

sshd (Sea Surface Height Deviation, m)

File type: (more information)

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The Dataset Attribute Structure (.das) for this Dataset

Attributes {
  time {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Time";
    Float64 actual_range 7.19064e+8, 1.3550544e+9;
    String axis "T";
    Int32 fraction_digits 0;
    String ioos_category "Time";
    String long_name "Centered Time";
    String standard_name "time";
    String time_origin "01-JAN-1970 00:00:00";
    String units "seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z";
  }
  altitude {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Height";
    String _CoordinateZisPositive "up";
    Float64 actual_range 0.0, 0.0;
    String axis "Z";
    Int32 fraction_digits 0;
    String ioos_category "Location";
    String long_name "Altitude";
    String positive "up";
    String standard_name "altitude";
    String units "m";
  }
  latitude {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Lat";
    Float64 actual_range -90.0, 90.0;
    String axis "Y";
    String coordsys "geographic";
    Int32 fraction_digits 4;
    String ioos_category "Location";
    String long_name "Latitude";
    String point_spacing "even";
    String standard_name "latitude";
    String units "degrees_north";
  }
  longitude {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Lon";
    Float64 actual_range 0.0, 359.75;
    String axis "X";
    String coordsys "geographic";
    Int32 fraction_digits 4;
    String ioos_category "Location";
    String long_name "Longitude";
    String point_spacing "even";
    String standard_name "longitude";
    String units "degrees_east";
  }
  ssh {
    Float32 _FillValue -9999999.0;
    Float64 colorBarMaximum 10.0;
    Float64 colorBarMinimum -10.0;
    String coordsys "geographic";
    Int32 fraction_digits 2;
    String ioos_category "Sea Level";
    String long_name "Sea Surface Height";
    Float32 missing_value -9999999.0;
    String standard_name "sea_surface_height_above_geoid";
    String units "m";
  }
  sshd {
    Float32 _FillValue -9999999.0;
    Float64 colorBarMaximum 0.5;
    Float64 colorBarMinimum -0.5;
    String coordsys "geographic";
    Int32 fraction_digits 4;
    String ioos_category "Sea Level";
    String long_name "Sea Surface Height Deviation";
    Float32 missing_value -9999999.0;
    String standard_name "sea_surface_height_above_geoid";
    String units "m";
  }
  NC_GLOBAL {
    String acknowledgement "NOAA NESDIS COASTWATCH, NOAA SWFSC ERD";
    String cdm_data_type "Grid";
    String composite "true";
    String contributor_name "Aviso";
    String contributor_role "Source of level 2 data.";
    String Conventions "COARDS, CF-1.6, Unidata Dataset Discovery v1.0";
    String creator_email "dave.foley@noaa.gov";
    String creator_name "NOAA CoastWatch, West Coast Node";
    String creator_url "https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov";
    String date_created "2012-12-10";
    String date_issued "2012-12-10";
    Float64 Easternmost_Easting 359.75;
    Float64 geospatial_lat_max 90.0;
    Float64 geospatial_lat_min -90.0;
    Float64 geospatial_lat_resolution 0.25;
    String geospatial_lat_units "degrees_north";
    Float64 geospatial_lon_max 359.75;
    Float64 geospatial_lon_min 0.0;
    Float64 geospatial_lon_resolution 0.25;
    String geospatial_lon_units "degrees_east";
    Float64 geospatial_vertical_max 0.0;
    Float64 geospatial_vertical_min 0.0;
    String geospatial_vertical_positive "up";
    String geospatial_vertical_units "m";
    String history 
"Aviso
2012-12-10T23:53:58Z NOAA CoastWatch (West Coast Node) and NOAA SFSC ERD
2025-04-01T10:27:43Z https://oceanwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/thredds/dodsC/satellite/TA/sshl/1day
2025-04-01T10:27:43Z https://polarwatch.noaa.gov/erddap/griddap/erdTAssh1day.das";
    String infoUrl "https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/infog/TA_sshl_las.html";
    String institution "NOAA CoastWatch, West Coast Node";
    String keywords "Earth Science > Oceans > Sea Surface Topography > Sea Surface Height";
    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, CoastWatch, NOAA, 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 Metadata_Conventions "COARDS, CF-1.6, Unidata Dataset Discovery v1.0";
    String naming_authority "gov.noaa.pfeg.coastwatch";
    Float64 Northernmost_Northing 90.0;
    String origin "Aviso";
    String processing_level "3";
    String project "CoastWatch (https://coastwatch.noaa.gov/)";
    String projection "geographic";
    String projection_type "mapped";
    String references "Aviso: http://www.aviso.oceanobs.com .";
    String satellite "TOPEX/Poseidon, ERS-1, ERS-2, Geosat Follow-On, Envisat, Jason-1";
    String sensor "Altimeter";
    String source "satellite observation: TOPEX/Poseidon, ERS-1, ERS-2, Geosat Follow-On, Envisat, Jason-1, Altimeter";
    String sourceUrl "https://oceanwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/thredds/dodsC/satellite/TA/sshl/1day";
    Float64 Southernmost_Northing -90.0;
    String standard_name_vocabulary "CF-12";
    String summary "Aviso Absolute Sea Surface Height is the Sea Surface Height Deviation plus the long term mean dynamic height. This is Science Quality data.";
    String time_coverage_end "2012-12-09T12:00:00Z";
    String time_coverage_start "1992-10-14T12:00:00Z";
    String title "Sea Surface Height, Aviso, Global, Science Quality (1 Day Composite)";
    Float64 Westernmost_Easting 0.0;
  }
}

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.

(easy) You can get data by using the dataset's Data Access Form. It makes the URL for you.
(easy) You can make a graph or map by using the dataset's Make A Graph form. It makes the URL for you.
(not hard) You can bypass the forms and get the data or make a graph or map by generating the URL by hand or with a computer program or script.

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.