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Re: Matlab --> NetCDF

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  • Subject: Re: Matlab --> NetCDF
  • Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:50:03 -0600
Hi James,

> We have another project here where data are being read into Matlab
> and organized in a special way. What's the best tool (programming
> language, et c.) to so this?

I'm no MATLAB expert, but there are various tools for accessing netCDF
data in MATLAB:

  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/software.html#MEXNC
  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/software.html#CSIRO-MATLAB
  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/software.html#MexEPS
  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/software.html#Mirone
  
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/loadFile.do?objectId=15177&objectType=file

The first of these describes software maintained by John Evans at
Rutgers, including a nice tutorial.  The last is a highly rated netCDF
reader package for use in MATLAB.  The others I don't know much about.

Unidata's netCDF-Java package is also useful for accessing netCDF data
(and other kinds of data handled by the Common Data Model), even through
OPeNDAP:

  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/support/help/MailArchives/netcdf/msg03303.html
  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/support/help/MailArchives/netcdf/msg03304.html

Sorry I can't tell you what the "best" of these is, it probably depends
on the applications, whether you only want to read the data, etc.

--Russ