Re: newbie, netCDF/isocontour/SpreadSheet ?'s: packed netCDF data

• To: Roland Schweitzer <rhs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: newbie, netCDF/isocontour/SpreadSheet ?'s: packed netCDF data
• From: Steve Emmerson <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 10:09:00 -0600

Hi Roland,

>Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 10:45:11 -0500
>From: Roland Schweitzer <rhs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Organization: Climate Diagnostics Center
>To: visad-list <visad-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: newbie, netCDF/isocontour/SpreadSheet ?'s.

In the above message, you wrote:

...
> Eventually, I will be reading data files which have floating point fields that
> were stored in the netCDF packed into two-byte integers.  So I'd also like to
> know if the netCDF interface "understands" packed data.

I wrote the netCDF import module for VisAD.

The netCDF import module doesn't "understand" packed data at this time
(i.e. it doesn't use the netCDF variable attributes "scale_factor" and
"add_offset").  I intend to add that capbility, however, and your need
will make it sooner rather than later.

What's your time-frame?

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Steve Emmerson   <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>

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