Hi Don -
What language would you like to use for this? I write my NetCDF-CF
files in Matlab, but I'm guessing that's not the most common way to do it.
There's also a NetCDF email list at
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/.
Cheers - Nan
>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.
>
>
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