[netcdfgroup] Argo files in netCDF to ?

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• Subject: [netcdfgroup] Argo files in netCDF to ?
• From: "Snyderwine, Martha E." <snyderwine@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:57:12 -0400

Hello. I'm exploring reading Argo float data for my python course I'm taking 
from Penn State University.  I need to create shapefiles for the ESRI ArcGIS 
9.3 product.

My script is working for the NOAA NODC provided .txt files.  Using a built in 
function from ArcGIS, I can get some of the netCDF files into a shapfile, but I 
see errors in values and I cannot always consistently create the vertical 
distribution of measurements for temperature and pressure.

Any ideas? I tried using the free tool NOAA NODC gives away that is supposed to 
dump the netCDF file to Excel, but it's not working.

Is there a way to dump a netCDF file to an ASCII text file that is fairly easy 
to interpret what the values mean? For example will I see a header line that 
labels, rows, and columns of data?

Thank you, Marti

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