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I understand that you are having trouble understanding what ".dods" file is,The DODS file is a Distributed Oceanographic Data System Data. The Distributed Ocean Data System (DODS) is a software framework used for data networking. The DODS data files are related to OPeNDAP. Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol (OPeNDAP) is the developer of client/server software, of the same name, that enables scientists to share data more easily over the internet.
To read, any kind of DAP data, you can use MATLAB "loaddap" command line tool:
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