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[netCDF #DAH-542964]: Conversion of NETCDF Files to Ascii--Iteration

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  • Subject: [netCDF #DAH-542964]: Conversion of NETCDF Files to Ascii--Iteration
  • Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:35:35 -0600
Hi Florian,

> I tried the ncdump tool but then i realized that what i need is not
> the regular Ascii; The output file format for my needs is the ESRI
> ASCII Grid. I need to open these ASCII Files with ArcMap..is there a
> conversion tool that can do this conversion?

Sorry, we don't have such a tool.

--Russ

> Zitat von Unidata netCDF Support <address@hidden>:
> 
> > Hi Florian,
> >
> >> For my master thesis i need to process a lot of Netcdf data. In order
> >> to do this i need to change the format from netcdf to ascii (ASC). I
> >> can do one file after another with the arcgis/Arcmap program, but since
> >> i have data from 1983 to 2005 (hourly data from solar radiation) there
> >> are approximately 176.000 files to process. Is there a tool available
> >> that is capable of doing this request?
> >
> > There are descriptions of a few tools that can be used for that purpose 
> > here:
> >
> >   http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf/docs/faq.html#converttotext
> >
> > In addition, there are scripting languages that have netCDF programming
> > interfaces, such as Python, that can be used for reading netCDF data and
> > printing it in text form, for example:
> >
> >   http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf/docs/software.html#Python
> >
> > --Russ
> >
> > Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
> > address@hidden                      http://www.unidata.ucar.edu
> >
> >
> >
> > Ticket Details
> > ===================
> > Ticket ID: DAH-542964
> > Department: Support netCDF
> > Priority: Normal
> > Status: Closed
> 
> 
> 
> 

Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                      http://www.unidata.ucar.edu



Ticket Details
===================
Ticket ID: DAH-542964
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed