MATLAB: Reading 3-dimensional netcdf data

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I downloaded precipitation data from SIM2RAIN. It is 3 dimensional and temporal resolution is 1 day. For example for year 2005, my file size is 365(days)*1440(long)*720(lat). I want to show precipitation data for each day in matrix (1440,720). So, It means ı will have 365 files. My file name is CCI_SM2RAIN_2005_BC.nc. I can do it by using Arcmap but it is very time consuming. How can I do this in matlab ? Thanks for help.

Best Answer

You can read your nc file like shown below....Change the variables in the below to your variables naming converntion in your file. 
ncfile='CCI_SM2RAIN_2005_BC.nc'
lon = ncread(ncfile,'Longitude') ; nx = length(lon) ; 
lat = ncread(ncfile,'Latitude') ; ny = length(lat) ; 
time = ncread(ncfile,'Time') ;
for i = 1:length(time)
    z = ncread(ncfile,'Rainfall',[i 1 1 ],[1, nx ny]) ;
    z = squeeze(z) ; 
    pcolor(lon,lat,z') ; 
    title(sprintf("Time step = %d",i)) ; 
    shading interp 
    drawnow
end
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