presumably this tool is limited to combining files with identical global
attributes? Of course the global attributes should conflict between
variables that you want to aggregate.
Karl
On 3/19/12 10:28 AM, David Hassell wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to advertise a hopefully useful new tool called 'cf2cf' for
> combining many CF-netCDF files into a single CF-netCDF file, where the
> input fields are aggregated into as few multidimensional netCDF
> variables as possible.
>
> This is a command line utility which utilizes the proposed CF
> aggregation rules (trac ticket #78) to combine CF fields based on
> their metadata. In particular differing variables' units, dimension
> order, dimension direction and netCDF variable names are are accounted
> for in the aggregation process.
>
> A quick, simple example:
>
> % cf2cf -o one_output_file.nc lots_of_input_files*.nc
>
> All details, including full documentation, more examples and
> installation, may be found at
> http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~david/cf2cf.html
>
> This tool uses the python cf package
> (http://code.google.com/p/cf-python), which also makes the same CF
> aggregation and the CF data model (trac ticket #68) available in an
> API, in a memory efficient manner.
>
> Any feedback, positive or negative, on cf2cf, the CF aggregation rules
> and the cf python package would, of course, be most gratefully
> received, to help make these better.
>
> All the best,
>
> David
>
> --
> David Hassell
> National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS)
> Department of Meteorology, University of Reading,
> Earley Gate, PO Box 243,
> Reading RG6 6BB, U.K.
>
> Tel : 0118 3785613
> Fax : 0118 3788316
> E-mail: d.c.hassell at reading.ac.uk
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