"Is there already an interface that allows for subsetting of the data or do you imagine that additional tools will be developed on top of the structure as is done with the current https GDAC service? "
In short:
- additional tools are required mostly for Matlab users, Python users are already very well equipped.
- If there's only subsetting to address, the api/database approach is an alternative solution to changing format. But that's not the case, we also would like to improve raw data access/structure through an alternative file format to netcdf
With regard to better understanding how Argo data could be easily subset-ed from the "cloud", this is for me the opportunity to try to summarise some key points: see below and, sorry for some possible shortcomings and verbosity of the email !
In long: