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import iris
iris.FUTURE.netcdf_promote = True

#url = 'http://geoport.whoi.edu/thredds/dodsC/usgs/data2/rsignell/usf_fvcom.ncml'
url = 'http://crow.marine.usf.edu:8080/thredds/dodsC/FVCOM-Nowcast-Agg.nc'
cubes = iris.load_raw(url)

cube = cubes.extract_strict('sea_surface_height_above_geoid')

print(cube)


    

    




sea_surface_height_above_geoid / (meters) (-- : 41688; -- : 51391)
     Auxiliary coordinates:
          time                                x           -
          latitude                            -           x
          longitude                           -           x
     Attributes:
          Conventions: UGRID-0.9.0
          CoordinateProjection: none
          DODS.dimName: DateStrLen
          DODS.strlen: 26
          Metadata_Conventions: Unidata Dataset Discovery v1.0
          cdm_data_type: any
          contact: email: lzheng@mail.usf.edu  Tel: 727-553-1639
          institute: USF College of Marine Science
          location: node
          mesh: fvcom_mesh
          naming_authority: SECOORA
          reference: http://fvcom.smast.umassd.edu
          source: FVCOM v2.7 with modification by L. Zheng
          standard_name_vocabulary: http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cms/eaton/cf-metadata/standard_name.html
          summary: Nowcast Aggregation for USF FVCOM
          title: USF FVCOM - Nowcast Aggregation
          type: data

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cubes


    

    
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[<iris 'Cube' of nodal x-coordinate / (meters) (-- : 51391)>,
<iris 'Cube' of Itime / (days since 1858-11-17 00:00:00) (-- : 41688)>,
<iris 'Cube' of sea_water_potential_temperature / (degrees_C) (-- : 41688; -- : 10; -- : 51391)>,
<iris 'Cube' of Itime2 / (unknown) (-- : 41688)>,
<iris 'Cube' of zonal x-coordinate / (meters) (-- : 98818)>,
<iris 'Cube' of sigma levels / (unknown) (-- : 11; -- : 51391)>,
<iris 'Cube' of Times / (no_unit) (-- : 41688; -- : 64)>,
<iris 'Cube' of Upward Water Velocity / (meters s-1) (-- : 41688; -- : 10; -- : 98818)>,
<iris 'Cube' of nodal y-coordinate / (meters) (-- : 51391)>,
<iris 'Cube' of eastward_sea_water_velocity / (meters s-1) (-- : 41688; -- : 10; -- : 98818)>,
<iris 'Cube' of northward_sea_water_velocity / (meters s-1) (-- : 41688; -- : 10; -- : 98818)>,
<iris 'Cube' of internal mode iteration number / (unknown) (-- : 41688)>,
<iris 'Cube' of sea_floor_depth_below_geoid / (m) (-- : 98818)>,
<iris 'Cube' of sea_water_salinity / (0.001) (-- : 41688; -- : 10; -- : 51391)>,
<iris 'Cube' of zonal y-coordinate / (meters) (-- : 98818)>,
<iris 'Cube' of nodes surrounding element / (unknown) (-- : 3; -- : 98818)>,
<iris 'Cube' of latitude / (degrees) (-- : 51391)>,
<iris 'Cube' of ocean_sigma_coordinate / (unknown) (-- : 10; -- : 51391)>,
<iris 'Cube' of sea_surface_height_above_geoid / (meters) (-- : 41688; -- : 51391)>,
<iris 'Cube' of longitude / (degrees) (-- : 51391)>]

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