Re: [netcdfgroup] projection of netcdf file with 1200 layers

• To: julia.nabel@xxxxxx
• Subject: Re: [netcdfgroup] projection of netcdf file with 1200 layers
• From: Kyle Shannon <ksshannon@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:18:57 -0600

Julia,
I think it kind of depends on what type of file format you need to output.
A 3-d dataset like this could easily be warped into a geotiff using gdalwarp
from gdal.org.

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On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 05:59, <julia.nabel@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> i have a quite specific question and just wonder if someone has a good
> idea/ experience with this
>
> I need to project geographical referenced (WGS84) climate data (Europe in
> 30 seconds) which is available as netCDF (dimensions: lon = 5160; lat =
> 4560; time = UNLIMETED; // (1200 currently))
> to an equal area rectangular coordinate system (with 1x1km^2 resolution).
>
> [The new projection is supposed to be: Projection: Albers_Conic_Equal_Area;
> Datum: European_Datum_1950; Units: Meters; Spheroid: International1924;
> lon0: 10, lat0: 30; lat1: 43, lat2: 62]
>
> Now i wonder which might be the best tool to project this NetCDF file. I
> found GMT, which seems to only able to project one layer at once and hence
> creates 1200 new files and then I found fimex, which I do not know yet, but
> it seems to be quite hard to compile.....
>
> Does anyone has experiences which such projections or the idea which tool
> does exactly what I need?
> Thank you very much for your help!
>
> Julia
>
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