mm5 to nc with CF conversion tool available

[Don Murray]

Hi Stuart-

Thanks for contributing this to the community.  We're working
on setting up a space on the IDV website where we can post
IDV related items (bundles, animations, plugins, code) and
once that's up, I can add a pointer to your converter if that's
okay with you.

Don

Stuart Maclean wrote:
> Given the recent postings about MM and netcdf, I thought I would mention 
> the fact that I have written a Java converter tool which converts both 
> the mm5 TERRAIN output and MODEL output (INTERP?) to netcdf.  The 
> conversion reads geo-locating metadata from the mm5 big header and 
> outputs these as CF conventions compliant netcdf.  IDV can read my nc 
> files directly.
> 
> I should point out that the converter was written to handle our local 
> mm5 files.  I know that it will not handle mm5 orderings CA for 
> instance. Further, the geolocating metadata is assumed to be in certain 
> sections of the mm5 big header, I am not sure if this assumption holds 
> in general
> 
> The converter is available for download at
> 
> http://metoc.apl.washington.edu/uwme
> 
> Stuart Maclean
> 

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