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Hi Rich, > Can libCF return the geospatial coordinates (z,t,lon,lat) associated > with a hyperslab of data from a structured grid 4D ocean model with > curvilinear horizontal coordinates and stretched vertical coordinates? > > e.g. > <http://coast-enviro.er.usgs.gov/cgi-bin/nph-dods/models/test/bora_feb.nc.html> > > I glanced at the documentation and saw some stuff for defining and > inquiring, but not for reading. No, sorry, that capability is in the plans for libcf, but it hasn't yet been implemented. Our libcf guru, Ed, will give a talk next week at the GO-ESSP meeting on what libcf can do now and what is planned for the next year. > We have an experiment coming up where the ocean glider pilots would > like to fly their gliders through the latest ocean model forecasts to > figure out how to get their vehicles from point A to point B in the > presence of a complex ocean current field. And although we have a > nice solution for them using Matlab and the NetCDF-Java library, one > of the glider groups uses C++, not Matlab or Java. Implementing an F90 interface to libcf has been a higher priority lately, due to requests from some modelers. Handling curvilinear coordinates sounds like something we could get some help implementing from OOI-CI, as they have informally mentioned developing some useful capabilities we both need rather than supplying resources directly ... --Russ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: QMO-280170 Department: Support LibCF Priority: Urgent Status: Closed