Re: [thredds] Irregular grids

Hi, Roy!

Thanks for clarifying the real issue.  I'm also interested in the "standard" 
way so that we can improve our hdf4_handler and h4tonccf tool.  

So, do you want to write your product in NetCDF UGRID that THREDDS can 
visualize as discussed in [3]?

If so, based on [3], it seems that there's a standard way to write a NetCDF 
UGRID and visualize it [4]. 

[3] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ugrid-interoperability/9kDNF0Xu43w
[4] 
http://comt.sura.org/thredds/godiva2/godiva2.html?server=http://comt.sura.org/thredds/wms/data/comt_1_archive/inundation_tropical/MDL_SLOSH/Hurricane_Ike_final_run_egm3


-----Original Message-----
From: Roy Mendelssohn [mailto:roy.mendelssohn@xxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 11:03 AM
To: Joe Lee
Cc: THREDDS community; Kent Yang; Ted Habermann
Subject: Re: [thredds] Irregular grids

I can write it to netcdf, but that doesn't mean that i have written it in some 
"standard" way, nor that thredds can read it  (or thredds say with a ugrid 
extension). That is really my question.

-Roy


On Apr 16, 2014, at 8:53 AM, Joe Lee <hyoklee@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi, Roy!
> 
>  Have you tried h4tonccf [1] or OPeNDAP Hyrax hdf4_handler [2] on your 
> product?
> 
>   May I download and look at your data product so that I can test with our 
> tools as well?
> 
>  We'd like to help you if your HDF4 product cannot be converted to or served 
> as  NetCDF successfully. 
> 
> [1] http://www.hdfeos.org/software/h4cflib.php
> [2] http://www.hdfeos.org/software/hdf4_handler.php
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thredds-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:thredds-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roy Mendelssohn
> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 10:43 AM
> To: THREDDS community
> Subject: [thredds] Irregular grids
> 
> Hi All:
> 
> I am dealing with some L3 binned data, in what I will call the "Seawifs 
> format".  The data is stored in an HDF file as a VData - basically one long 
> array or table if you want.  The reason it is done this way is the "grid" is 
> irregular, that is each row has a varying number of columns.  I can read the 
> data fine in python, but I am trying to find out what options I have for 
> serving it.  Clearly one option is to grid the data at a somewhat coarser 
> resolution, and i might do that.  But my questions are:
> 
> 1.  Is there a standard way to write this to a netcdf file  (I can calculate 
> the lat-lon at the center of each bin)?
> 
> 2.  Can such a file be served by thredds, and if so what would it take.
> 
> 3.  If it can be served by thredds, does what gets returned make sense to 
> someone not familiar with what is going on  (basically we deal with 
> unsophisticated users, it must be real clear what is being returned to them).
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> -Roy M.
> 
> 
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Roy Mendelssohn
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Environmental Research Division
Southwest Fisheries Science Center
1352 Lighthouse Avenue
Pacific Grove, CA 93950-2097

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