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Re: 20050627: NetCDF to ascii table

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  • Subject: Re: 20050627: NetCDF to ascii table
  • Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 16:21:25 -0600
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>>Subject: NetCDF to ascii table 
>>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>>Keywords: 200506272019.j5RKJpNi028612
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> Hi,
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> =20
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> I have some data in NetCDF format that I need to convert to ascii.  I am
> aware of ncdump and ncks, but I don't see how they can help me in my
> case.  The data I have is from a WRF output and is for multiple times
> and levels, and I need to pull out four variables for only one
> time/level.  Ideally I'd like to pull out , XLAT, XLONG, RAINNC and W
> for each grid point in the file, and put the data in an ascii text file
> in a tabular form such as:
>
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> XLAT(0) XLONG(0) RAINNC(0) W(0)
>
> XLAT(1) XLONG(1) RAINNC(1) W(1)
>
> XLAT(2) XLONG(2) RAINNC(2) W(2)
>
>    Etc.
>
> =20
>
> I can only get ncdump and ncks to print the variables out one at a time.
> Is there a script/utility out there that can do this already, or do I
> need to write my own code?   And I HATE writing code!   :-)
>
> =20
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> Thanks for any help you can give!
>
> =20
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> Dave
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> =20
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> *********************************************
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> David Fitzgerald
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> Distributed System Specialist II
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> Millersville University
>
> Millersville PA 17551
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> Phone: 717-871-2394
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> Fax:     717-871-4725
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> Oh, so they have internet on computers now!=20
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>                                          -- Homer Simpson

Dave,

For tool information I suggest you look at:
http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/products/vis/data/netcdf/index.html

There's a much longer list here:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/software.html

If you hate programming, you really will want to get some tools
besides ncdump/ncgen.

Good luck! Let me know if you need more help.

Ed
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Ed Hartnett  -- address@hidden