Hi Paulo,
You can do this without creating a new file. You can use a Descriptor
file to tell Ferret to use all the files as a single dataset, (or if
the files can be put on an OPeNDAP server, then this can be done with
an aggregation)
Look at the topic, Descriptor File in the Documentation:
http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/Ferret/documentation/users-guide/converting-to-netcdf/CREATING-A-MULTI-FILE-NETCDF-DATA-SET
There are some tools for creating a descriptor file using your list of
files. Once you have a descriptor file, you can open it in Ferret
yes? set data my_descriptor_file.des
and the entire time series is available to you to use in creating your
climatology.
Paulo Santiago wrote:
Hi Ferreters,
I have a time series consisting in a month per
file, with one time step per month. I would like to calculate a
climatology from these data. Ferret's documentation mentions how to
create a climatology only in the case of a single file containing the
full time series.
I'm considering to concatenate the time series using NCO, but it
will create an (possibly) unecessary very large file. Another idea is
to read each month using a loop and then do the computations.
However,
I was wondering if there were a more elegant way to compute this
climatology, requiring less disk space and/or using a predefined Ferret
command.
Any suggestion is welcome!
Cheers,
Paulo Santiago