Accessing IMOS satellite data and converting into CSV format

Several satellite datasets are available from the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) portal (http://imos.aodn.org.au). Data include sea surface temperature, chlorophyll-a concentration and sea surface height and derived geostrophic currents and can be downloaded from the IMOS portal in the form of NetCDF files. The available satellite datasets and how to access them is detailed below. NetCDF (network Common Data Form) is a file format for storing multidimensional scientific data (variables) such as temperature and current speed, and direction, and each of these variables can be displayed through a dimension (such as time). This format is commonly used in oceanography and meteorology and widely used in MATLAB applications. Panoply (http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/panoply/) is a JAVA application developed by NASA that can be used for viewing NetCDF files (allows plotting) and exporting data into a csv or txt file.