File talk:BrnBld LaptevTopo.pdf

Plotting the Laptev Sea
Let us assume you have installed the open-source Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) on your computer. Let us further assume, you downloaded the (freely available) topographic Netcdf-file of ETOPO1 available from the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center. Then, the follow bash-script generates a postscript file with the bathymetry of Laptev Sea: