• COAPS Time
  In February 2020, COAPS replaced the older Invtime and Convtime procedures with COAPS Time procedures that convert between the minute timestamp used in the SAMOS Ship NetCDF back into a standard year/month/day/hour/minute time (and vice versus). The original codes were developed during WOCE and were not designed to work beyond the end of 2020. The new COAPS Time functions will work for any date after 01-01-1980 00:00 UTC (the reference time used by WOCE and SAMOS) and are available as C, FORTRAN, IDL, or Perl source code. The codes are published under a open source liscence (see top of each code file).

• True Winds
  The True Winds procedures compute meteorological true winds (direction from which the wind is blowing, relative to true north; and the speed relative to the fixed earth) from input course, heading, ship spped, and ship-relative wind speed and direction. They are available in C, FORTRAN, and IDL source along with test I/O.

Additional materials, including read codes and a NetCDF Primer, can be found on the WOCE website.