Re: [netcdfgroup] storing sparse matrices data in NetCDF

• To: Charlie Zender <zender@xxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: [netcdfgroup] storing sparse matrices data in NetCDF
• From: Chris Barker <chris.barker@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 10:16:14 -0700

On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 7:18 PM Charlie Zender <zender@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I suggest you store it as Dave Allured says, with dimensions
> (time, ID). This is often called an "unstructured grid".
> NCO has no problem subsetting data on unstructured grids,
> where lon(ID) and lat(ID) are known as auxiliary coordinate
> variables.


Good to know. I just took a look at the NCO docs, and it's not totally
clear to me if it will "just work" with a file that conforms to the UGRID
standard:

http://ugrid-conventions.github.io/ugrid-conventions/

will it?

-CHB



> Just use
>
> ncks -X lon_min,lon_max,lat_min,lat_max -X ....
>
> It's all in the manual, which has an index that points to
> examples of using unstructured grids and their proper CF
> formatting.
>
> Charlie
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