How to convert HDF to netcdf

[Jennifer Adams]

The differences between hdf(4/5) and hdf-eos(4/5) are in the metadata,  
which GrADS generally ignores. Some hdf4 files have enough attribute  
metadata so that they can be opened with sdfopen or xdfopen, but that  
is not the norm. The only way to get GrADS to read an hdf5 file is to  
provide a complete descriptor with all the required metadata -- there  
is no support in sdfopen/xdfopen for the hdf5 format. All the metadata  
you need can be found in the h5dump output.
--Jennifer

On Aug 12, 2009, at 8:23 AM, Yan Libin wrote:

> how about hdf-eos format?
>
>
> 2009-08-12
> Yan Libin
> 发件人： Jennifer Adams
> 发送时间： 2009-08-12  20:22:11
> 收件人： GRADSUSR
> 抄送：
> 主题： Re: How to convert HDF to netcdf
> 1. The HDF group may have some routines in their hdf5 library for  
> converting hdf5 into something other format. http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/
> 2. GrADS version 2.0.a7.1 has an interface for reading hdf5 files  
> directly. http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/SDFdescriptorfile.html
> --Jennifer
>
> On Aug 12, 2009, at 3:15 AM, hiren dave wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> all
>> 1) I want to convert HDF(.h5) file into netcdf file. How can I ?
>> 2) How to  display HDF file using grads?
>> I attached one sample file which i want to convert. I am using  
>> grads-1.8sl11-win32e version of grads for windows.
>>
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>

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