Scientific data and formats

Scientific data, format descriptions and standards related to my work and publications.

• PLATES data type codes
• Peter Bird's 2002 plate boundaries for GMT
• Geophysical properties used in modelling and simple calculations
• File format specs for geological/geophysical data (evolving)
• Historical oil production data from Germany

• East, M., Müller, R.D., Williams, S., Zahirovic, S., Heine, C. 2020. Subduction history reveals Cretaceous slab superflux as a possible cause for the mid-Cretaceous plume pulse and superswell events. Gondwana Research 79: 125–139. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2019.09.001 - Zeonodo record for Slab volume flux data

From Petrel one can usually export ZMAP+ formatted grids in a given projection. It pays off to use a projection which is GDAL/PROJ compatible so that one can simply use the EPSG codes to reproject grids. I found it easier to use the GDAL-stack instead of going forth and back using GMT and/or GIS. Here's the basic steps I usually go through:

1. gdal_translate -of netCDF -a_srs EPSG:12345 INPUT_grd_UTM_zmap+.dat OUTPUT_grd_UTM.nc (chose from GDAL's exhaustive raster drivers list)
2. Check whether the output is correct using gdalinfo OUTPUT_grd_UTM.nc
3. Re-project grid using gdalwarp -t_srs EPSG:4326 OUTPUT_grd_UTM.nc OUTPUT_grd_EPSG4326.nc
4. Run GMT-script on OUTPUT_grd_EPSG4326.nc