[gradsusr] netcdf point (station) datasets in grads

Ghansham Sangar ghanshamsangar at gmail.com
Tue Oct 29 20:48:13 EDT 2013


Can you just send a sample data descriptor file for cf-1.6 station data.
Well I have tried unidata idv, it seems to open it directly.
Anyways thanks for the prompt reply.
Regards
Ghansham

On Tuesday, October 29, 2013, James T. Potemra wrote:

>  Ghansham:
>
> If you follow CF-1.6 for discrete geometries, you should able to open the
> data set in GrADS, but you will have to write a data descriptor file.  The
> CF-1.6 convention is to have variables with single dimensions, and I
> believe GrADS (as well as other client tools) needs to have lat/lon
> dimensions.
>
> Jim
>
> On 10/29/13 7:47 AM, Ghansham Sangar wrote:
>
> R/Sir
> Is it possible to open point datasets in netcdf format following CF
> conventions (see discrete sampling geometry in cf metedata conventions1.6
> document available online). I could not find online documentation regarding
> same. I am using grads 2.0.2. The dataset is satellite derived wind vectors
> having relevant fields (ucomp,  vcomp, wind speed, Windows direction,
> latitude, longitude,  date/time of each observation).
> Ghansham
>
>
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