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------- Forwarded Message Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:02:22 -0600 From: Russ Rew <address@hidden> To: [address withheld by request] Subject: Re: 20000721: NetCDF and Excel ? >To: address@hidden >From: [address withheld by request] >Subject: NetCDF and Excel ? >Organization: >Keywords: netCDF Excel Hi [Question asking about software to convert netCDF data to a spreadsheet format, such as Excel] No, sorry, I have been unable to find a way to convert general netCDF data directly to a spreadsheet format either. At http://las.saa.noaa.gov/las-bin/climate_server/dset=50km+SST+GLOBAL there is an example of a data archive that uses netCDF and makes the data available in any of the forms: Plotted Image (GIF) Spreadsheet NetCDF file Tab-delimited file Comma-delimited file Generic ASCII file but it has been set up only for data that follows certain conventions. The developers of this archive might have some utiliites available that could be adapted to your purpose. A couple of other approaches that require some programming are - read the data into MATLAB (or IDL or some similar commercail package) and see if there is a way to export the data for Excel or as comma-delimited text - use the ncdump utility that comes with netCDF to output the file into a CDL text file. Write a perl (or awk or shell or python or ...) script to convert the CDL text representation (which already includes comma-delimited lists of values) into something Excel can import. At your request, I'm not including your identity in this reply our email support archives. --Russ _____________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu ------- End of Forwarded Message