Re: [idvusers] Reading local station netCDF file with the IDV

• To: Stuart Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: [idvusers] Reading local station netCDF file with the IDV
• From: Sean Arms <sarms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:31:05 +0000

Greetings Stuart,

     Thank you for your reply.  Even after reading through the GEON
documents, I still cannot get my data into the IDV.  I will post to the
netCDF list - perhaps it is an issue with the way I am writing my netCDF
files.

Sean



Stuart Wier wrote:
> Sean,
>
> The GEON IDV for solid earth geophysics often deals with point data. 
> You may find something useful in
> http://geon.unavco.org/unavco/IDV_for_GEON_data_access.html
> http://geon.unavco.org/unavco/IDV_for_GEON_netcdf.html
> http://geon.unavco.org/unavco/IDV_for_GEON_csv.html
>
>
> Sean Arms wrote:
>>
>>      I've been working on using the IDV to read data from our local
>> micronet and I am running into a few problems.  I've tried to be as
>> faithful to the netCDF Observation Dataset Conventions
>> (http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/formats/UnidataObsConvention.html)
>>
>> as much as possible, but I have had very limited success.  Just to
>> briefly summarize our micronet, we have 28 stations, each recording
>> temperature and relative humidity at five minute intervals.  I'm trying
>> to read in a netCDF files that is one day in length.  The IDV reads the
>> file as a gridded file, which does not allow me to view the data, as the
>> dataset is point data.  Perhaps this error is related to my poor netCDF
>> writing skills, in which case I will visit the netCDF forms, but I'm
>> hoping that someone will be able to point me in the right direction.
>> I've attached the netCDF file in case anyone is interested in
>> reproducing the errors (I really do not know Java [yet], so I can't
>> really parse any error output from the IDV)
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Sean
>

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  • [idvusers] Reading local station netCDF file with the IDV
    • From: Sean Arms
  • Re: [idvusers] Reading local station netCDF file with the IDV
    • From: Stuart Wier