MAKE_GULFDRIFTERS Create a drifter dataset for the Gulf of Mexico. GULFDRIFTERS creates a dataset containing all publicly available surface drifter data from the Gulf of Mexico, as described in Lilly, J. M. and P. Perez-Brunius (2021a). A gridded surface current product for the Gulf of Mexico from consolidated drifter measurements. Submitted to Earth Science System Data. The dataset is available at Lilly, J. M. and P. Perez-Brunius (2021). GulfDrifters: A consolidated surface drifter dataset for the Gulf of Mexico [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3985916 This function contains the code for creating GULFDRIFTERS.NC. It is provided for completeness, although it will not be possible for you to run in its entirety because some of the source files are proprietary. Thanks to Paula Garcia Carrillo of CICESE for help with the conversion to NetCDF. Usage: make_gulfdrifters --create __________________________________________________________________ This is part of JLAB --- type 'help jlab' for more information (C) 2020--2021 J.M. Lilly --- type 'help jlab_license' for details