Re: NetCDF to ASCII text file conversion for Windows

• To: Jon Wood <jwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: NetCDF to ASCII text file conversion for Windows
• From: Paul Hein <hein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 10:40:21 -0600 (MDT)

ncks of the NCO is another way to get ascii from a netcdf file.  That 
might be worth looking at.  Go to http://nco.sourceforge.net/ for the 
code.
Paul Hein
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Jon Wood wrote:

> We have a large number of NetCDF oceanographic (ADCP) data files we 
> would like to forward to non-netCDF users for analysis.  Most of this 
> analysis work is done on Windows machines.  We are looking for 
> NetCDF-to-ASCII text file conversion utilities so these folks can 
> convert the ADCP files to ASCII text files for input into their own 
> analysis routines.  The NCDUMP.EXE program works OK, but the formats are 
> abit difficult; we wondered if anyone out there has additional programs 
> available, or knows about other sources, to perform this task.  We've 
> played around with NCBROWSE and WebWinds.  Ideally, we'd want a program 
> (runs from a DOS prompt) that reads the NetCDF file and writes 
> (selected) variables to a text file in a format perhaps similar to RDI's 
> BBList output application.  Know what I mean?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jon Wood
> 
> 
> 

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  • NetCDF to ASCII text file conversion for Windows
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