20020509: Using netCDF v3.5 (f90 interface) and HDF4 together

Paul,

>Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 08:03:48 -0400
>From: Paul Van Delst <address@hidden>
>Organization: CIMSS@NOAA/NCEP/EMC
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 20020508: Using netCDF v3.5 (f90 interface) and HDF4 together
>Keywords: 200205082122.g48LMCa15014

The above message contained the following:

> Hi Steve,
>
> Thanks for the info and links. After sleeping on it, I found a pretty
> good solution: don't use HDF. :o) The first line in my run scripts are
> now :
>
> ncdump ${DATASET}.hdf | ncgen -b -o ${DATASET}.nc

Very elegant!

> So now all my data is in netcdf format. Yay. For what I was trying to
> do, the HDF datafile was a bit of an anomaly so this will work great
> for me. For folks that use HDF a lot it's not really an option. Best
> of all, it was a solution that took, oh, about 10 or so seconds to
> test. Awright! (netCDF is my dataset format of choice so I have all my
> customised interfaces built already).
> 
> Thanks again,

You're welcome.

> paulv
> 
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Regards,
Steve Emmerson   <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>