netcdf bathy/smith_sandwell_topo_v8_2.nc {
  dimensions:
    longitude = 10800;
    latitude = 6336;
  variables:
    float longitude(longitude=10800);
      :long_name = "Uniformly spaced longitudes (.01667E -> 359.9833E)";
      :cartesian_axis = "X";
      :units = "degrees_E";
      :ipositive = 1; // int

    float latitude(latitude=6336);
      :long_name = "Mercator spaced latitudes (72.0009S -> 72.0009N)";
      :cartesian_axis = "Y";
      :units = "degrees_N";
      :ipositive = 1; // int

    short ROSE(latitude=6336, longitude=10800);
      :add_offset = 0.0f; // float
      :scale_factor = 1.0f; // float
      :long_name = "Topography and Bathymetry (  8123m -> -10799m)";
      :units = "meters";
      :valid_range = -32766S, 32767S; // short
      :missing_value = -32767S; // short
      :unpacked_missing_value = -32767.0f; // float

  // global attributes:
  :title = "Smith & Sandwell v. 8.2: 1/30-degree topography and bathymetry";
  :Conventions = "COARDS";
  :GFDL_NCIR_VER_NO = "1.0beta4";
  :unpacked_missing_value = -32767.0f; // float
  :institution = "University of California San Diego";
  :source = "Uses satellite-measured gravity anomalies constrained by ship soundings to predict water depth.";
  :history = "26 Sep 2003: Dataset SS_2min_topo_8.2.nc FTPed from NOAA/GFDL by E. D. Cokelet, NOAA/PMEL.  Variable Z_ELEVATION name changed to ROSE, Relief of Surface of the Earth.  Documentation added to global attributes.  Data file name changed to smith_sandwell_topo_v8.2 to parallel Smith & Sandwell v. 6.2 dataset used by Ferret.  Sometime earlier GFDL had converted this dataset to netcdf.  See GFDL website http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/~hnv/SS_topography.html.";
  :references = "Smith, W. H. F. and D. T. Sandwell, Global Seafloor Topography from Satellite Altimetry and Ship Depth Soundings, Science, v. 277, p. 1956-1962, 26 September, 1997.";
  :comment = "Read accompanying smith_sandwell_COPYRIGHT and smith_sandwell_README_V8.2 files for details.";
}