[CF-metadata] longitude, latitude and compress

[Philip J. Cameron-smith]

Hi Antonio,

For software, you might try CDAT, which is CF compliant.  It is 
built on top of python and has both analysis and visualization 
capabilities.  It is also open source (ie free).

All the documentation and code is at

http://cdat.sf.net/

Best wishes,

      Philip


On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Antonio Guarnieri wrote:

> Dear all,
> I am trying to write a netCDF file in CF convention using the
> compression method to save
> disk space. I have a few questions to whom may be concerned:
>
> 1. Do you know if grads or ferret recognize the CF conventions. If they
> do not,
> do you know of any program that do recognize it? I tried with matlab,
> but I think
> it doesn't.
>
> 2. In my netCDF I have longitude and latitude as variables. Do you know if
> they can be declared 2D in the CF convention ? i.e.: can it be:
>
> float lon (lat,lon) and
> float lat (lat,lon)
>
> or it necessarily has to be
>
> float lon(lon) and
> float lat(lat)
>
> to be CF compliant?
>
> Thanks a lot for your help,
> best regards, Antonio Guarnieri
>
> -- 
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>
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