Working with Data
Finding and Accessing Data
Data search and discovery

NSIDC Data Cookbook

Welcome to our Cookbook
Getting Started
- How to use this cookbook
- Tools we use
NSIDC Data
- Types of data
- Common file formats
- NASA collections and granules
- NSIDC map projections and grids
- Quirky Datasets
Working with Data
- Finding and Accessing Data
  - Getting an Earthdata Login
  - Data search and discovery
  - Data access
- Wrangling Data
  - Subsetting
  - Reformatting
  - Reprojecting
  - Resampling
- Visualizing Data
  - Plotting data - time series, scatter plots
  - Plotting data on a map
Best Practices
How do I...
- Search for data
- Access data
- Reproject data
- Work with NetCDF files?
  - get the bounding box of a netcdf file
  - get the latitude and longitudes for grid cells
Appendices
- What is an API?

Working with Data
Finding and Accessing Data
Data search and discovery

Dataset Search and Discovery

Getting an EDL
A simple earthaccess search and download
EDS
curl
wget

Quirky Datasets

Plotting data on a map