1. HYCOM NetCDF is 1. spatial 1. single time slice 1. single variable 1. Aggregated by THREDDS catalog 1. Slice for top layer 1. Constrain bounding box to -98W, +37E, +56N, 0S 1. Latitude Indixes 365 (inclusive) to 1214 (exclusive) 1. Full range of Longitude 1. Collect all times into monthly files 1. Temp, Salinity, thickness, u, v