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Reading ODV ("Ocean Data View") data formats into python/pandas
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odv2python.py
# CASE 1: 'ODV.nc' exported from ODV.
import xarray as xr
ds = xr.open_dataset('ODV.nc')
ds.rename({v: ds[v].long_name for v in ds if hasattr(ds[v], 'long_name')})
# CASE 2: 'ODV.txt' in the tabular ODV text format.
import pandas as pd
pd.read_csv('ODV.txt', skiprows=7, header=[0], sep='\t', encoding = "ISO-8859-1”)
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