Section: 5.14 Other NetCDF Utilities

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5.14 Other NetCDF Utilities

Many other useful netCDF utilities developed by third parties are available. NCL, NCO, and CDO packages are described in later sessions. The Java ToolsUI utility is described in the netCDF Java session.

Here are a few of the many special-purpose utilities available for netCDF data:

ncks (netCDF kitchen sink), part of the NCO package, is a versatile utility for extracting subsets of data, displaying netCDF data as text, converting among the netCDF format variants, and other operations.
nccmp compares two netCDF files either bit-wise or with a user-defined tolerance.
cdfsync synchronizes a set of netCDF files over a network quickly by only transmitting differences between files
ncensemble computes ensemble statistics.
ncregrid rediscretizes geo-data variables to grids of different resolutions.

For additional utility software, consult Unidata's Software for Manipulating or Displaying NetCDF Data or GFDL's descriptions of netCDF utilities.

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