Re: Creating a netCDF file

[Ansley Manke <ansley.b.manke@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ben,
How about using Ferret to write yourself an example file?  Pick
a single location from any file that depends on time, and write it out:

 yes? use fnoc_winds
 yes? save/file=example.nc  uwnd[x=180,y=0] , vwnd[x=180,y=0]

Pretending uwnd is air temperature and vwnd is the flag.

Ansley Manke

Ben Burford wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I'm writing software to create a netCDF file and write data and metadata int
> o the file.  The data is internal to my program so I can't use routines to c
> onvert from another format to netCDF, I have to create the file.
>
> My data is time series station data (e.g. Air_Temperature) at a lat/lon poin
> t.  I also have a second variable that is a quality flag (single ascii chara
> cter) for each Air_Temperature value.  I want to set up the metadata (lat/lo
> n location and time series info) so that Ferret reads the file and sees the 
> data as a time series and can create a (normal) time series plot of the data
>  I'm having some trouble with the axis information, especially the time se
> ries part.
>
> Can someone please send me (or give me a URL to) an example of a similar tim
> e series netCDF station data file (ideally that is COARDS compliant) that I 
> can look at with ncdump and see the contents?  A single example is worth a s
> tack of documents.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Ben
>
>