Hi Chad:
GMT does do netCDF but it follows a specific convention. What
visualization program are you trying to read it in? Even more
importantly, for the GMT netcdf file, can you do the following
command (assuming you have the utility and the file is foo.nc):
ncdump -h foo.nc
and send the results. The problem usually resides with the
dimensioning of the variables.
-Roy M.
At 1:29 PM -0500 5/8/03, Mr. Chad W. Saxon wrote:
i'm sorry if i was unclear before.. i am using netCDF. The GMT file is
for the most part the same as the netCDF file but there is one or two
slight variations. this is the problem i am having when figuring out how
my program can read both formats.
chad
On Thu, 8 May 2003, John Caron wrote:
Mr. Chad W. Saxon wrote:
>hi there everyone. i am new to the list and have an interesting question
>regarding netCDF. I have two data formats, one in GMT and one in CDF. i
>have a computer program that uses CDF as a way to read data and
>visualize it, however the program does not read the GMT format. Is there
>a simple script or solution to convert the GMT format to CDF? i was
>thinking there was a GMT command to convert it to CDF format but am
>uncertain as to what that is. I know there is not much difference between
>the two, but its enough to cause my program not to run correctly. i hope
>i have been clear in my problem, and i would appreciate your help. thanks
>a lot.
>
>Chad
>
>
By "CDF" do you mean "netCDF" ?
A "GMT file" might be a netCDF file already, as far as I can tell from:
> http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/doc/html/GMT_Docs/node108.html
>
> do you know what you have?
>
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