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>From: "Jong-Nam Choi" <address@hidden> >Organization: . >Keywords: 199908230037.SAA03082 >Dear. > >This is Jong-Nam Choi. I am a graduate student in the department of >geography at the university of Georgia. Recently I downloaded >datasets which is formatted by NETCDF file format. >Problem is I need to convert NETCDF files to GEMPAK files. >Unidata developed GEMPAK programs and NETCDF. Thus I hope you know >how to convert. Please help me. >Thank you in advance for your help. > >Jong-Nam Choi.... >Jong-Nam Choi >Ph.D. Candidate >Climatology Research Laboratory >Dept. of Geography, University of Georgia. >Athens, GA, 30602 >(Phone) 706-542-6060 > Jong-Nam Choi, Can you provide me with information on the type of data you have stored in the NetCDF files? If you have installed the NetCDF distribution, you can use the ncdump utility to provide me with the information regarding the data as follows: ncdump -h your_netcdffile.cdf If possible, please send me the output from "ncdump -h" as shown above to provide us with the metadata regarding your data set. Steve Chiswell