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20031121: Using NCDF of windows 2000,

>From: "David Butman" <address@hidden>
>Organization: Woods Hole Research Center
>Keywords: 200311211537.hALFbJEH020790 netCDF ncdump

David,

>I am currently attempting to read and manipulate a suite of data provided
>by the CDC and I cannot do it.  I am going through the process of learning
>what net CDF is all about but I have to be honest, there does not seem to be
>a direct message saying 'this is what you have to do.'

That is because the netCDF is an API, not an application.

>All I want to be
>able to do is transform these data from the format provided into something
>usable in both ArcGIS and ERDAS.  Please advise....

It sounds like the first thing for you go do is to grab the netCDF
binary distribution for Windows; install it; and then try using
ncdump.exe to list out data from the file in ASCII format.  Beyond that,
we do not provide utilities aimed at transforming data directoy to ArcGIS
or ERDAS formats.

Using ncdump.exe to export data stored in netCDF format to ASCII is
pretty easy.

You can grab the netCDF binary distribution for Windows using anonymous
FTP from our FTP server, ftp.unidata.ucar.edu:

machine:    ftp.unidata.ucar.edu
user:       anonymous
pass:       address@hidden
directory:  pub/netcdf/contrib/win32
file:       netcdf-3.5.0.win32bin.ZIP
directions: WIN32_README.TXT

You can also use your web browser to get this distribution:

  Is netCDF available for Windows?
  http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/netcdf/faq.html#win

Click on the 'get "this zip file"' link in the paragraph on netCDF
availability for Windows.

>Thanks
>David
>__________________________________
>David Butman
>Research Assistant
>Carbon Program
>Woods Hole Research Center
>P.O. Box 296, Woods Hole, MA 02543
>Phone: 508-540-9900 Ext. 146
>address@hidden
>www.whrc.org

Tom Yoksas