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For many years I have used tbl2cdf (available on Unidata's site, google it) to convert multiple column input to netCDF. Then I use NCO to annotate the metadata. tbl2cdf is just another filter. My scripts look like this: fl_stb='icr_JRI_dst_lac_1831_1992' fl_src="${HOME}/icr/${fl_stb}.txt" fl_tmp="/tmp/${fl_stb}.txt" fl_hdr="/tmp/${fl_stb}.hdr" fl_nc="${DATA}/icr/${fl_stb}.nc" cat > ${fl_hdr} << EOF time:f cnc_dst_ngxg:f cnc_lac_ngxg:f EOF tail --lines=+2 ${fl_src} > ${fl_tmp} tbl2cdf -h ${fl_hdr} ${fl_tmp} ${fl_nc} ncrename -O -d u,time ${fl_nc} ncatted -a _FillValue,,o,f,-1.0 -a Description,,d,, ${fl_nc}ncap2 -O -h -s 'cnc_dst=cnc_dst_ngxg*1.0e-9f;cnc_lac=cnc_lac_ngxg*1.0e-9f' -s 'cnc_dst_ngxg@long_name="Dust concentration";cnc_lac_ngxg@long_name="Black Carbon concentration"' -s 'global@Description="Attached are the monthly concentration data for James Ross. The dust record is identical to that in the PNAS 2007 article. It was computed from the HR-ICP-MS-recovery-corrected Al measurements assuming a crustal abundance for Al of 0.0804 (8.04%)."' ${fl_nc} ${fl_nc}
Hope this helps, cz -- Charlie Zender, Earth System Sci. & Computer Sci. University of California, Irvine 949-891-2429 )'(
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