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[netCDF #NRE-269426]: ncdump -x with netCDF4 files

Hello Meg,

I've installed netcdf-4.1.1 on an older virtual machine and have tested it 
against various netcdf4 files.  In my testing, it does not give an explicit 
error, but it does not generate any useful NcML.  In later versions, the 
explicit error message was added.  It seems to me that you will not be able to 
generate NcML with the C libraries/executable.

I've done a bit of digging, and it appears that you might be able to use the 
netcdf-java library to generate NcML for netcdf4 files, however.  Most of the 
netcdf-java developers are out of the office for the upcoming Christmas 
holiday, but I've done some testing by hand and it appears to work on my test 
files.

After downloading the 'netcdfAll-4.5.jar' file from 
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/netcdf/index.jsp, I followed the 
instructions found at 
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/thredds/current/netcdf-java/reference/manPages.html#ncdump,
 e.g.

    $ java -Xmx1g -classpath netcdfAll-4.5.jar ucar.nc2.NCdump 
$HOME/Desktop/ncfiles/netcdf4_test.nc -ncml

Perhaps this solution would work for you? I wish I could say with more 
confidence that netcdf4 support was implemented completely, but it should be 
fairly easy to test.

I hope this helps,

-Ward


> Hello,
> 
> We've encountered a strange situation where someone with ncdump version
> 4.1.1 is able to run ncdump with the -x flag on netCDF4s, whereas those of
> us with later versions (4.3.2) cannot. My understanding was the NCML
> extraction feature had never been implemented for netCDF4, but apparently
> this is incorrect. Can you let me know what the status is? If possible,
> we'd like to run ncdump -x on netCDF4s.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Meg Tilton
> 
> --
> Margaret Tilton
> Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at
> University of Colorado at Boulder and
> NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, Solar and Terrestrial Physics
> Division
> 325 Broadway, E/GC2
> Boulder, Colorado 80305
> 303-497-6223
> 
> 

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: NRE-269426
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed