0)install netcdf-3.6.1
1) use NCO (netcdf operator) to extract from the WOA to your local region
and save into separate netcdf file
2) use matlab + mexnc+netcdf_toolbox to read into matlab
you can find mexnc and netcdf_toolbox on sourceforge.
How to use netcdf_toolbox (on linux/unix)
matlab -nojvm
> f=netcdf('filename.nc');
>
> variablename=f{'variable'}(:);
>
>whos
>
where variable is a variable name in the netcdf file. Use ncdump -h
filename.nc to find out what is