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>To: address@hidden >From: "Ghisolfi, R. David" <address@hidden> >Subject: netcdf beginning >Organization: Dept. Applied Mathematics, The University of New South Wales >Keywords: 199804070135.TAA23938 Hi David, > I have some oceanographic data and I want to put them in netcdf > format, but I have no idea where to begin. Where can I find some help and > what are the requirements to do that? You should probably first decide whether you will be using the C, Fortran, C++, perl, Python, or Java programming interface. The first two have the best documentation in the form of User Guides, available from http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/docs.html There are some exiting conventions for representing oceanographic data in netCDF: http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/epic/General_Conv.html and http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/noaa_coop/coop_cdf_profile.html There are also some newer proposed conventions available from http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/coords/0054.html and http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/coords/0058.html that are discussed along with other proposals on http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/coords/proposals.html --Russ _____________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu