Mark, > My names Mark Beharry and i am currently a student at Kingston > University in London. I am doing my final project on the relationship > between Sea Surface tempertature and Tropical cyclone formation in the > various ocean basins for the past 30 years. I am currently a member of > the unidata website. I am required to get hold of the data which i > have, from the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis website which is in the form of an > .nc file. I had to install netCDF in order to access the contents > within the file. I have the data but it is currently not in a readable > format. I read that i will need a ncdump to convert the time into a > readable format. I have looked around the website and downloaded a > couple of files but nothing seems to work. I would kind ly like to ask > whether there is an alternative way to get this ncdump or whether you > have this data in a readable format? Any sort of advise or help would > be incredibly appreciated. See this netCDF FAQ on converting binary netCDF data to text: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf/docs/faq.html#converttotext --Russ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: NYF-625169 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Closed