For a quick check of the data, you might want to use OpenEV. It is part of the FWTools distribution.
http://fwtools.maptools.org/ http://openev.sourceforge.net/ David. On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:04 AM, M.E.Dodd <m.e.d...@open.ac.uk> wrote: > Thanks for the replies on this one. > I am indeed looking at other tools to open netCDF files. > However I just noticed that in qgis 1.4 there is a .nc option (well two > actually presumably different formats) when opening a raster image. So I > tried it, unfortunately the file opened upside down and possibly a little > smaller than it should have done. > Has anyone else used this in qgis to confirm the qgis part is working OK so I > can go back to the data provider and check the original data itself. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Toews [mailto:mwto...@sfu.ca] > Sent: 07 January 2010 18:19 > To: M.E.Dodd > Cc: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] GDAL and .nc (netCDF) and qgis > > M.E.Dodd wrote: >> I would like to open some large gridded met data files, produce means of the >> values for each grid square (data for each square are given each year for a >> number of years and I want a mean of all the years) and write the data out >> again showing just the means per grid square. >> > > I would look at other tools for doing calculations on multi-dimensional > NetCDF files. I've used NCO in the past for this,[1] which can average a > time dimension in a 3D grid to produce a 2D grid (which can be converted > to any other raster format using GDAL). You can do much more with NCO > utilities. However, NCO is not user-friendly, since it is command-line > work, requires a lot of documentation reading to understand the usage, > and is available for almost all operating systems except MS Windows. > > [1] http://nco.sourceforge.net > > -Mike > > > The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt > charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
