[CF-metadata] Difficulties to display Swath files form NetCDF.

[Denis Nadeau]

Hi,

I am trying to convert a L2 Swath data file from HDF to NetCDF following 
CF-1 Convention.   I order to do so, I have tried to follow this method:
http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-conventions/1.0/cf-conventions.html#id2621732

I did not succeed to read back the NetCDF file properly into either:  
Ferret, Grads or IDV.  (getting aggravated  :-!  )
I saw in the mailing list archive that  "Jonathan Gregory" has tried to 
do something similar.  Did he succeed?

http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/pipermail/cf-metadata/2004/000426.html

So, is there a way to represent SWATH data using CF-1 Convention? 
If so, is there a "Application" that can read the metadata and display 
the image correctly (swath)?

Here is a L2 Swath HDF file I am using.
ftp://airspar1u.ecs.nasa.gov/data/s4pa//Aqua_AIRS_Level2/AIRX2RET.005/2008/019//AIRS.2008.01.19.001.L2.RetStd.v5.0.14.0.G08020192400.hdf

Thanks for your help on this issue.


Best Regards,
Denis

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Denis Nadeau
Goddard Earth Sciences Data & Information Services Center
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