Rich, There aren't any best practices documents that I'm aware of. In theory, if it's CF-compliant, it should be readable. It's just that ArcMap's NetCDF capabilities are still new, so it still has some kinks. ESRI is relying on the (small) user community to report bugs in the implementation so they can be fixed.
The two major issues I've found working with it are: (1) Projection parameters need to be specified as doubles. If they're specified as floats, they get read in as garbage values very near zero. And (2) it may not know what to do with the Rotated Pole projection system. I haven't had a chance to delve deeply into it, though, so I'm still not certain that it's a GIS problem; it could be that we still don't quite have the metadata correct in those files. I do have examples. The standard NARCCAP files are quite large and require registration to access, but I can put something together for you to look at in pretty short order. Is there anything in particular that would be important to include? --Seth >Seth, > >Is there a "best practices" page for creating NetCDF files that are >readable by ArcGIS 9.3? > >And could you point us toward some examples of NetCDF files that >ArcGIS 9.3 can read? > >Thanks, >Rich _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata