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[IDV #NJE-239274]: IDV question

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  • Subject: [IDV #NJE-239274]: IDV question
  • Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:53:27 -0600
Hi Jess-

> My colleague and I were interested in plotting our three dimensional space
> weather model data in IDV. The data reads out time latitude, longitude,
> altitude, and 45 other variables (like temperature, density, chemical
> constiuent density, joule heating, etc etc etc). Would you be able to assist
> us by describing how we should format these files (file type, any special
> headers, etc) for reading into IDV in order to generate 3-D plots and
> animations of this data.

The best format would be a netCDF file using CF conventions.  Depending on
the current format of the data, you have a couple of options:

- use the netCDF library to write a program to create the netCDF file.
- if you just have ascii text, you might try using the instructions at:

http://geon.unavco.org/unavco/IDV_for_GEON_data_access.html

This work was done outside of Unidata so we don't support it, but it
might help you get started.  If you have questions, let us know.

Don Murray

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: NJE-239274
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Open