Re: Transform World Ocean Atlas 1/4 x 1/4 degree to NEtCDF

["namba takaya" <takayanamba11@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Joe

Thank you very much for your kindness.
If I can get the fortran code for 1 x 1 degree to NetCDF with the 
acceptance of Mark,  I am very pleased and will be able to modify it for 
1/4 x 1/4 by myself. 
Best Regards,

Takaya Namba 
>From: Joe McLean <joe.mclean@noaa.gov>
>To: namba takaya <takayanamba11@hotmail.com>
>CC: ferret_users@noaa.gov,  "Mark.Collier@csiro.au" 
<Mark.Collier@csiro.au>
>Subject: Re: Transform World Ocean Atlas 1/4 x 1/4 degree to NEtCDF
>Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:43:51 -0800
>
>Namba-san,
>
>I see what you are talking about now. In February, 2003, I put out the
>word through both the Ferret users and LAS users mailing lists that I
>was looking for a way to translate the NODC/OCL World Ocean Atlas data
>from the native OCL format to NetCDF format. The OCL format is a unique
>compressed ascii representation of the data, and is not conducive to
>Ferret commands for reading ASCII data.
>
>I received an answer from, among others, Mark Collier at CSIRO. Mark
>actually supplied me with the NetCDF files which he created. They hold
>the 1 x 1 degree resolution of the data. I only glanced at the Fortran
>code which he developed to do this, but you may be able to edit and use
>this same code on the .25 degree OCL formatted files to create NetCDF
>files. I have cc'd Mark with this email. If Mark wishes, I can supply
>the code to you. Let me know if there is more I can do to help.
>
>Joe
>---------------------
>namba takaya wrote:
>
> > Dear Joe
> >
> > Thank you very much for your kind reply.
> >
> > I downloaded the high resolution files of 1/4 x 1/4 degree from
> > http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/indprod.html
> >
> > The format is the same as 1 x 1 degree except for the 1440 x 720 in
> > stead of 720 x 360. of 1 x 1 degree.
> > The format discription is at
> > http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/readqd25.html
> >
> > I would like to calculate geostrophic current from 1/4 x 1/4 degree 
WOA.
> >
> > What I thought is to use ferret by the way explained in the Chapter 2
> > of ASCII DATA/Reading ASCII files and saving by netcdf format.
> >
> > I wonder if this is best way for the large amount of data like WOA 1/4
> > x 1/4.
> > If there are better and easier way, I would like to know it.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Takaya Namba
> >
> >
>