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[IDV #MHO-206620]: Fwd: Re: Acceptable input formats for NCAR IDV

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  • Subject: [IDV #MHO-206620]: Fwd: Re: Acceptable input formats for NCAR IDV
  • Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 14:59:36 -0700
> Hi Jeff, Sean, Yuan and Julien,
> 
> The note below is from a grad student working on one of our funded
> EarthCube building blocks proposals.   He's trying to get the CUAHSI
> hydrology station data into a netCDF form that can be visualized in the IDV
> as a time series.
> 
> I've never tried to use the IDV for displaying time series and I'm not sure
> I've seen anyone else do that either.   Can you please help him out
> (including letting him know if there are better alternatives)?
> 
> Many thanks.
> --Ben
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Yaping Xiao" <address@hidden>
> Date: Jan 27, 2014 11:47 AM
> Subject: Re: Acceptable input formats for NCAR IDV
> To: "Alva Couch" <address@hidden>
> address@hidden>
> 
> Dear Dr. Domenico,
> 
> I am a graduate student working with Prof. Alva Couch on the Building
> Blocks project. Currently, I have successfully formatted CUAHSI time series
> as netcdf and this shows up properly in the data viewed. I am trying to
> format this NetCDF timeseries data so it can be visualized.  I have a
> test NetCDF file which can be loaded by Unidata Tools UI Viewer, but not
> visualized by Unidata IDV(although being able to loaded into). I wonder if
> you could give some advice or specify some software tools on visualizing
> NetCDF timeseries data. So far, I have not received an answer from the IDV
> team.
> 
> Best regards,
> Yaping
> 

Hi Yaping,
      Please email us a sample file to test locally, if the sample file is too 
big, you can upload here:

http://motherlode.ucar.edu/repository/alias/idvupload


Yuan
> 
> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Alva Couch <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Ben,
> >
> > I and Yaping Xiao are trying to create a data format that is an output
> > of the CUAHSI data system and suitable for input to the NCAR IDV. We
> > are having trouble finding documentation on the input format
> > accepted by the IDV. We are working from the only document that we
> > can find, which is the CFPoint documentation.
> >
> > Currently we have having to resort to reverse engineering of documented
> > IDV sources that generate compliant code.
> >
> > Is there better documentation of how to construct an IDV input
> > to represent station time series? Could you help us find it?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > - alva
> >
> >
> > --
> > Dr. Alva L. Couch
> > Associate Professor of Computer Science
> > Tufts University, Medtord, MA 02155
> >
> 
> 


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: MHO-206620
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Open