3.1.5.10. Loading files generated by adcpsect

No special programs are needed to read the adcpsect output, just some simple code.

The *_xy.mat and *_uv.mat files use code like the following in matlab to turn the matrices into x,y,u,v,z:

Example:

load contour_uv.mat
load contour_xy.mat

x=xyt(1,:)';
y=xyt(2,:)';
dday=xyt(3,:)';
u=uv(:,1:2:end);
v=uv(:,2:2:end);
%zc is center of depth bins

badi=find(isnan(x));
x(badi)=[];
y(badi)=[];
dday(badi)=[];
u(:,badi)=[];
v(:,badi)=[];

Note

The time variable is a zero-based decimal day: Noon on Jan 1 is 0.5 (not 1.5). All CODAS data follow this standard.