Formatting Sea Level Data
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Hello to everyone,
I am pretty new with Matlab and I dont know how to get this right. I am trying to process some data carrying sea level information. The file contains 17858 lines where each line corresponds to half day of sea level measurements; this is the first line of the pack:
200901011 2199 2096 1923 1777 1679 1650 1697 1796 1907 2007 2065 2073
where the first number of each line (ie 200901011) represents "year-month-day-halfday" and the rest of the numbers are sea level measurements in mm for every hour during the halfday itself. I am attaching one mat file to clarify.
I would like to process the data being able to plot time vs. sea level but I don't know how to extract the different variables and get the proper time series, particularly when it comes to join the data corresponding to the same day (halfday+halfday). Maybe it is simple and straightforward but this is when you know the bussines...
Thanks very much in advance!
Edu
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Mischa Kim
on 16 Feb 2014
Edited: Mischa Kim
on 16 Feb 2014
Edu, this should do:
ndays = length(data(:,1))/2;
ndata = ndays*24;
Tdata = data(:,1);
Rdata = reshape(data(:,2:end)',ndata,[]); % turn data into a singular column vector
tloc = 12*find((Tdata - 1e3*round(Tdata/1e3)) == 11); % find 1st of month for tick labeling
tlab = {'Jan','Feb','Mar','Apr','May','Jun',...
'Jul','Aug','Sep','Oct','Nov','Dec'}; % corresponding tick labels
tspan = 1:ndata;
plot(tspan,Rdata,'+-b')
xlabel('Month')
ylabel('[your ylabel]')
title('[your title]')
grid;
set(gca,'XTick',tloc,'XTickLabel',tlab)
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