[CF-metadata] Seeking example program for storing surface obs in CF convention

[V. Balaji]

Don: the CMOR program is widely-used for rendering climate model output
data CF-compliant.

http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/software-portal/cmor/

Perhaps you might find it useful as a template for doing the same with
obs.

Don Morton writes:

> Hello,
>
> I apologize if this question is too elementary, or not "directly" applicable
> to this list, but I've Googled and searched around a bit, and this seems
> like my best avenue.
>
> I am interested in taking lots of surface obs (currently in flat ASCII files -
> one file per station, records sorted by obs time) and putting them in a
> netCDF format.  I'd also like to do this only once, and it appears that maybe
> CF is the convention I should adhere to.
>
> I'm wondering if there are example scripts or programs out there that
> demonstrate
> the writing of time series of surface obs (e.g. METARs) into a CF-compliant
> netCDF file.  I don't need any hand-holding (I hope);   I've used netCDF API in
> Fortran before (for simple stuff), and am just hoping I can find some example
> that shows how the variables are written into the file, what
> atrributes are attached,
> etc.  I've seen the CF 1.0 document, but just feel like an example would be so
> much more helpful.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Don Morton
>

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