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

[Jorge Vazquez]

Denis:
We use ncview. I also have some IDL programs that I have written.
I would be happy to send you those programs if it helps.

Jorge.


At 10:23 AM -0400 3/21/08, Denis Nadeau wrote:
>Hi Craig,
>
>Thank you for the help you have offered me.  I was able to convert 
>our SWATH data into netCDF following the CF-1 convention using one 
>of your file as an example.  My main problem was that I set the 
>units to "degrees_south" and "degrees_west" and there is no such 
>unit in the CF-1 convention.
>
>I do have another question about softwares.   I personally like 
>'IDV' quite a lot to display netCDF, but thought there might be 
>other softwares that people use that I might not be aware of.
>
>What softwares is your community using to display  netCDF (CF-1) data?
>
>Thanks again your help,
>Best Regards,
>Densi
>
>2008/2/8, Craig Donlon 
><<mailto:craig.donlon at gmail.com>craig.donlon at gmail.com>:
>
>Hello Denis:
>the GHRSST-PP (<http://www.ghrsst-pp.org>http://www.ghrsst-pp.org) 
>provides swath data in netCDF
>format.  Dave  Poulter and Jorge Vazquez can help you look through one
>of the GHRSST-PP L2P files from MODIS and several other sensors
>
>all the best
>craig
>
>
>On 07/02/2008, Denis Nadeau 
><<mailto:denis.nadeau at nasa.gov>denis.nadeau at nasa.gov> wrote:
>>  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>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>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>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
>>
>>  --
>>  Denis Nadeau
>>  Goddard Earth Sciences Data & Information Services Center
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