I am able to get Geotiff rasters to diplay with Mapserver but I'm struggling with netCDF CF-1 compliant files.
If you have time to look at my mapfile (astro5.map), you can see my html index at http://bigbend.homeip.net/ My netCDF files have the Lambert Conic Conformal projection. gdal_translate won't handle them and gdalinfo gives a warning that the lat/long was not found. This is strange because Ferret will handle them and ncdump shows lat/long variables with the correct units "degrees_east" and "degrees_north". Here is the output: $gdalinfo 200612010300_sky.nc Warning 1: xdim/x/lon/longitude or ydim/y/lat/latitude variable(s) not found! Driver: netCDF/network Common Data Format Size is 689, 1 Coordinate System is: PROJCS["unnamed", GEOGCS["WGS 84", DATUM["WGS_1984", SPHEROID["WGS 84",6378137,298.257223563, AUTHORITY["EPSG","7030"]], TOWGS84[0,0,0,0,0,0,0], AUTHORITY["EPSG","6326"]], PRIMEM["Greenwich",0, AUTHORITY["EPSG","8901"]], UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433, AUTHORITY["EPSG","9108"]], AXIS["Lat",NORTH], AXIS["Long",EAST], AUTHORITY["EPSG","4326"]], PROJECTION["Lambert_Conformal_Conic_1SP"], PARAMETER["latitude_of_origin",25], PARAMETER["central_meridian",-95], PARAMETER["scale_factor",25], PARAMETER["false_easting",0], PARAMETER["false_northing",0]] Origin = (-263789.468708,3.000000) Pixel Size = (5072.03385776,0.00000000) Metadata: NC_GLOBAL#title=GRIB Data translated to NetCDF NC_GLOBAL#Conventions=CF-1.0 NC_GLOBAL#CreatedBy=degrib NC_GLOBAL#comment=Used degrib with: -NetCDF 3 NC_GLOBAL#references=http://www.nws.noaa.gov/mdl/NDFD_GRIB2Decoder/ Sky_SFC#long_name=Total cloud cover Sky_SFC#units=% Sky_SFC#coordinates=longitude latitude Sky_SFC#ReferenceTime=1164931200 Sky_SFC#ReferenceTimeString=2006-12-01 00:00:00 00:00 Sky_SFC#gridType=SCALAR Sky_SFC#level=SFC Sky_SFC#DescriptiveLevel=0[-] SFC="Ground or water surface" Sky_SFC#OriginatingCenter=865535 Sky_SFC#precision=0 Sky_SFC#valid_min=0.000000e+00 Sky_SFC#valid_max=1.000000e+02 Sky_SFC#NumMissing=375560 Sky_SFC#_FillValue=9.999000e+03 Sky_SFC#missing_value=9.999000e+03 Sky_SFC#grid_mapping=MapProjection Sky_SFC#GRIBMessageVersion=2 Sky_SFC#GRIBMessageUnits=% Sky_SFC#GRIB2_Discipline=0 Sky_SFC#GRIB2_Sect4TemplateNumber=0 Sky_SFC#GRIB2_Sect4ParameterCategory=6 Sky_SFC#GRIB2_Sect4ParameterNumber=1 Sky_SFC#GRIB2_GenerationProcess=2 Sky_SFC#GRIB2_FstFixedSurfaceType=1 Sky_SFC#GRIB2_FstFixedSurfaceValue=0 Sky_SFC#GRIB2_SndFixedSurfaceType=255 Sky_SFC#GRIB2_SndFixedSurfaceValue=0 ProjectionHr#long_name=Projection Hour After ReferenceTime ProjectionHr#units=hours since 2006-12-01 00:00:00 00:00 ProjectionHr#_CoordinateAxisType=Time ProjectionHr#FirstValidTime=1164942000 ProjectionHr#FirstValidTimeString=2006-12-01 03:00:00 00:00 ProjectionHr#FirstProjectionHR=3 YCells#units=m YCells#long_name=y coordinate of projection YCells#standard_name=projection_y_coordinate YCells#grid_spacing=5079.406000 m YCells#TrueGridLength_Latitude=25 YCells#_CoordinateAxisType=GeoY XCells#units=m XCells#long_name=x coordinate of projection XCells#standard_name=projection_x_coordinate XCells#grid_spacing=5079.406000 m XCells#TrueGridLength_Latitude=25 XCells#_CoordinateAxisType=GeoX MapProjection#long_name=MapProjection MapProjection#grid_mapping_name=lambert_conformal_conic MapProjection#EarthShape=sphere MapProjection#EarthRadius_KM=6371.2 MapProjection#EarthRadius=6371.200000 km MapProjection#standard_parallel=25 MapProjection#longitude_of_central_meridian=-95 MapProjection#latitude_of_projection_origin=25 MapProjection#LowerLeftLatitude=20.192 MapProjection#LowerLeftLongitude=-121.554 Corner Coordinates: Upper Left ( -263789.469, 3.000) ( 95d 6'16.28"W, 24d59'59.87"N) Lower Left ( -263789.469, 3.000) ( 95d 6'16.28"W, 24d59'59.87"N) Upper Right ( 3230841.859, 3.000) ( 93d43'11.51"W, 24d59'40.17"N) Lower Right ( 3230841.859, 3.000) ( 93d43'11.51"W, 24d59'40.17"N) Center ( 1483526.195, 3.000) ( 94d24'43.84"W, 24d59'55.82"N) Band 1 Block=689x1 Type=Float32, ColorInterp=Undefined NoData Value=9999 Metadata: NETCDF_VARNAME=Sky_SFC NETCDF_DIMENSION_xcells=1 Band 2 Block=689x1 Type=Float32, ColorInterp=Undefined NoData Value=9999 Metadata: NETCDF_VARNAME=Sky_SFC NETCDF_DIMENSION_xcells=2 Band 3 Block=689x1 Type=Float32, ColorInterp=Undefined NoData Value=9999 Metadata: NETCDF_VARNAME=Sky_SFC NETCDF_DIMENSION_xcells=3 Band 4 Block=689x1 Type=Float32, ColorInterp=Undefined NoData Value=9999 Metadata: NETCDF_VARNAME=Sky_SFC
