Re: [netcdfgroup] ASCII to NetCDF

• To: spazm <kaan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: [netcdfgroup] ASCII to NetCDF
• From: David William Pierce <dpierce@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:14:33 -0700

Do you use an analysis package such as R, IDL, or Matlab? Many such packages
can create netcdf files. It might be easiest to read your files into a
package you are familiar with, then write the netcdf file in the package.

Regards,

--Dave

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 4:34 PM, spazm <kaan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have been googleing to find a solution to convert a couple hundreds of
> ASCII files to Netcdf however, the solutions I found don't really fit into
> my data set. So, I wanted to ask in here.
>
> My ASCII files come from a GWC (generic water column) data. I paste the
> header and first two lines of the data below;
>
> /# -----------------------------------------------------
> # Source Files Information
> # Index Filename
> #  0    I:\raw\234.all
> # -----------------------------------------------------
> # Field Definitions
> #  0    Sample File ID (see above)
> #  1    Sample Position X
> #  2    Sample Position Y
> #  3    Sample Position Z
> #  4    Sample Value (Amplitude)
> #  5    Sample Time
> #  6    Sample Range
> #  7    Ship Position X
> #  8    Ship Position Y
> #  9    Ship Heading (degs)
> # 10    Ship Pitch (degs)
> # 11    Ship Roll (degs)
> # 12    Transducer Depth (m)
> # 13    Sound Speed (m/s)
> # 14    Ping Number X
> # 15    Ping Time X
> # 16    Sample Number X
> # 17    Beam Number X
> # 18    Beam Azimuth X
> # 19    Beam Elevation X
> #0           1           2        3        4       5      6           7
> 8      9     10     11     12      13    14             15   16  17     18
> 19
>  0   684028.44  4576014.50    -3.76  -127.00  0.0004   0.32   684020.44
> 4576016.44 238.36   3.25  -0.21   3.28  1504.3 00002  1223471556.46    1
>  99
> 0.00  13.98
>  0   684028.50  4576014.50    -3.86  -127.00  0.0006   0.49   684020.44
> 4576016.44 238.36   3.25  -0.21   3.28  1504.3 00002  1223471556.46    2
>  99
> 0.00  13.98/
>
> Any suggestions to convert this to netcdf? I installed ferret but couldn't
> manage to write the suitable code.
>
> Thanks!
>
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-- 
David W. Pierce
Division of Climate, Atmospheric Science, and Physical Oceanography
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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