[gradsusr] Help with HDF-EOS2

[hersala]

Dear Charles and Arlindo:
Thank you very much for you answers. I will try with your suggestions.
Hernán


On 5 October 2011 18:06, Arlindo da Silva <dasilva at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Charles Seman <Charles.Seman at noaa.gov>wrote:
>
>> Hernan,
>>
>> Do you have access to NCL?  If so, there is an "ncl_convert2nc"
>> command-line utility which lists "HDF-EOS 2" as one of the input dataset
>> formats it recognizes:
>> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Tools/ncl_convert2nc.shtml
>> I haven't used it.  Example 6 on the above web site features an HDF file
>> for input.
>>
>>
> I don't think the issue is the format per se (HDF-4 vs NetCDF), but rather
> that HDF-EOS uses a metadata convention that is not COARDS; if you ignore
> the HDF-EOS junk (usually in the form of global attributes), it is a
> bonafide HDF-4 file. With the right DDF you should be able to read this
> Level 3 dataset (likely on 1x1 lat lon grid), no need to convert it to
> netcdf.   If you have hdf-4 installed, send the result of "ncdump -c
> filename" where "ncdump" here is the one that comes with HDF-4.
>
>    Arlindo
>
>
>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Chuck
>>
>> hersala wrote:
>> > Dear GrADS users:
>> >
>> > I would need some help in extracting a single dataset from an HDF-EOS2
>> > file (for instance, ICECON from AMSR_E_L3_SeaIce12km_B06_20080207.hdf)
>> > that could be opened with GrADS.
>> >
>> > I have already tried in several ways, but to no avail.
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance.
>> >
>> > Hernán
>> >
>> >
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