Re: [CF-metadata] brand new user

2013-03-19 Thread Izidor Pelajic
Thank you all for help! Still working on understanding what have you said. For now, I mange to transform my file in a fashion that can be import to cost watch software. Still working on the coordinates, for now I made a rectangular grid from lon min to lon max :) Thanks one more time, Izidor

Re: [CF-metadata] brand new user

2013-03-14 Thread John Caron
On 3/14/2013 6:39 AM, Izidor Pelajic wrote: Hi all, I'm new at netCDF, new at CF, and moderate MATLAB user. I'm new at netCDF in a sense of days or week. So my problem (beyond the fact that I do not have general knowledge) is next. I was provided with a .nc file. In it there are 3 information of

Re: [CF-metadata] brand new user

2013-03-14 Thread Jonathan Gregory
To correct a small typo sst:coordinate = lat lon; The attribute name is coordinates, not coordinate. Jonathan ___ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata

Re: [CF-metadata] brand new user

2013-03-14 Thread Etienne Tourigny
You may wish to save yourself some trouble, and use a tool that produces cf-compliant files, such as cdo (Climate Data Operators) [1]. in a nutshell this should be accomplished with a simple command: cdo -f nc copy in.nc out.nc although there is no guarantee that your particular file will be

Re: [CF-metadata] brand new user

2013-03-14 Thread Seth McGinnis
CDO is great if your data is on a lat-lon grid, but on curvilinear grids it has a tendency to trash the ancillary data. I would not recommend it for something like Izidor's use. (At least, that was my experience the last time I used it; possibly it's better now, but I haven't read anything in