Hi Jim, > I was referred to you by the ESRL to get a reader for this file. Can direct > me where I can access it? The file is in netCDF-4 classic model format, so there are many software packages that can read it, for example some of the free and commercial packages listed here: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf/software.html If you want to see the metadata and data in text form, the ncdump utility is a command-line program that is available with the netCDF library, and is available from many platform repositories. Other ways of converting the binary data into human-readable text are described here: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf/docs/faq.html#converttotext I've appended the output from running the command $ ncdump -h tmp_2m_latlon_all_20150519_20150520_jimmRNweP5.nc The "-h" option outputs the metadata ("header" information) but not the data. --Russ netcdf tmp_2m_latlon_all_20150519_20150520_jimmRNweP5 { dimensions: time = UNLIMITED ; // (2 currently) lat = 71 ; lon = 136 ; ens = 11 ; fhour = 1 ; variables: double time(time) ; time:long_name = "Time" ; time:units = "hours since 1800-01-01 00:00:00" ; time:axis = "T" ; int intTime(time) ; intTime:long_name = "time as an integer (YYYYMMDDHH)" ; float lat(lat) ; lat:long_name = "Latitude" ; lat:standard_name = "latitude" ; lat:units = "degrees_north" ; lat:actual_range = 12.f, 82.f ; lat:axis = "Y" ; float lon(lon) ; lon:long_name = "Longitude" ; lon:standard_name = "longitude" ; lon:units = "degrees_east" ; lon:actual_range = 180.f, 315.f ; lon:axis = "X" ; short ens(ens) ; ens:long_name = "ensemble" ; ens:standard_name = "ensemble" ; ens:axis = "E" ; ens:description = "0 is control, other values are perturbation numbers" ; int fhour(fhour) ; fhour:long_name = "forecast hour" ; fhour:units = "hours" ; int intValidTime(time, fhour) ; intValidTime:long_name = "valid time as an integer (YYYYDDMMHH)" ; float Temperature_height_above_ground(time, ens, fhour, lat, lon) ; Temperature_height_above_ground:_FillValue = 9999.f ; Temperature_height_above_ground:units = "K" ; Temperature_height_above_ground:long_name = "Temperature @ height_above_ground" ; Temperature_height_above_ground:GRIB_param_discipline = "Meteorological_products" ; Temperature_height_above_ground:GRIB_param_category = "Temperature" ; Temperature_height_above_ground:GRIB_param_name = "Temperature" ; Temperature_height_above_ground:GRIB_generating_process_type = "Forecast" ; Temperature_height_above_ground:GRIB_param_id = 2, 0, 0, 0 ; Temperature_height_above_ground:GRIB_product_definition_template = 0 ; Temperature_height_above_ground:GRIB_product_definition_template_desc = "Analysis/forecast at horizontal level/layer at a point in time" ; Temperature_height_above_ground:GRIB_level_type = 103 ; Temperature_height_above_ground:GRIB_level_type_name = "height_above_ground" ; Temperature_height_above_ground:GRIB_VectorComponentFlag = "easterlyNortherlyRelative" ; Temperature_height_above_ground:level = 2 ; // global attributes: :Conventions = "CF-1.0" ; :title = "Subset of data from 2nd-generation multi-decadal ensemble reforecast generated from the NCEP Global Ensemble Forecast System, mimicking version operational at NCEP/EMC circa mid-2012." ; :institution = "NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL)" ; :source = "NCEP GFS v 9.01, T254L42. Control initial conditions from CFSRR. Perturbed initial conditions from ETR. Model error simulated with STTP." ; :references = "http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/forecasts/reforecast2/index.html"; ; :history = "Subset created 2015-05-20 20:00:02 UTC" ; :comment = "Original dataset generated on DOE\'s supercomputers at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory through ALCC/ASCR grant." ; } Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: NBS-703757 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Closed
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