This archive contains answers to questions sent to Unidata support through mid-2025. Note that the archive is no longer being updated. We provide the archive for reference; many of the answers presented here remain technically correct, even if somewhat outdated. For the most up-to-date information on the use of NSF Unidata software and data services, please consult the Software Documentation first.
>To: address@hidden >From: address@hidden (Xiaoqing Wu) >Subject: question about netcdf >Organization: UCAR >Keywords: 199902092055.NAA25729 Hi Xiaoqing Wu, > I have a netcdf format dataset (i.e., data.nc), > and I want to get a fortran code to read the dataset (data.nc). > Could you tell me how to generate the code? See the user-contributed program named "GENNET.F" from Barry Schwartz: ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/contrib/gennet.f This Fortran program will generate Fortran to read any netCDF file. However, the code it generates uses the netCDF version 2 Fortran interface. The version 2 interface is still supported by the current netCDF software library, but the netCDF documentation now documents the netCDF-3 Fortran interface. Hence if you want to understand and modify the generated Fortran program, you will need to refer to the older netCDF-2 User's Guide at http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/guide_toc.html or the more concise reference documentation for netCDF version 2 at http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?netcdf2+-s3f Please note that gennet.f is user-contributed software, so we cannot support it directly; it is made available "as is". For more information about user-contributed netCDF software, please see http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/contrib.html I am not aware of software for generating Fortran to read a netCDF file using the netcdf-3 Fortran interface. However, it is possible to use the ncgen utility, available as part of the netCDF package, to generate Fortran to write a netCDF file: $ ncdump data.nc > data.cdl $ ncgen -f data.cdl > writedata.f For more information about this, see the ncgen documentation at http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?ncgen It might be possible to modify the resulting code to write the netCDF file so that it reads the file instead, by changing the "put" calls to "get" calls and deleting the calls that define the dimensions, variables, and attributes. _____________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu