[Vis5d-users] Re: routines to acces netcdf files from vis5d

Emanuele

You may want to check out Ferret at
http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/Ferret/Documentation/ferret_documentation.html

Ferret is able to convert netCDF files to v5d format quite easily with
one command.
I frequently use ferret to do just that, and to manipulate netcdf
files.  And it works pretty well.
But ferret can be a little hard to use since it is mainly command prompt
driven, although an unsupported GUI exists.  I think it's worthwhile if
you do a lot of netcdf file manipulation.

Hope this helps.

-Kek

> Bill Hibbard wrote:
> 
> Hi Emanuele,
> 
> > I have configured and "made" vis5d with netcdf support, but I am not
> 
> > able to import any netcdf file. I get the following message for any
> > netcdf file I have.
> >
> >         Warning:  etopo40.cdf is of unknown type
> >
> > If I did'nt understand wrong, I need to write code to access netcdf
> > files of general type (not conform to any standard).
> > I wander if any of you has already done it and like to share the
> code
> > with me (I'm not lazy but I would avoid to reinvent the wheel).
> 
> I'm not sure what this means. Vis5D as distributed from
> our server only supports netCDF for irregularly located
> station data, not for the main model data. And the support
> for station data is frankly not very robust in the variety
> of netCDF files tat it can access.
> 
> Good luck,
> Bill
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