NC2TABLE

Basic Information

Name of Program

NC2TABLE

Version-Date

July 2017

Description-Date

July 2017

Catchwords

data conversion
postprocessor
synoptic data sets
CF NetCDF format
CSV format (comma separated values)
tabular data
support of DMQS metadata and variables

Acknowledgment: This project took advantage of netCDF software developed by UCAR/Unidata (www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/).

Short Description of Functionality

Program NC2TABLE allows selective data extraction from CF NetCDF files to CSV files. Extracted data ares stored in tabular form and may be subsequently used in spread sheet programs like MS EXCEL.

Input-Files

1. general input data (file type nc2table.dat);
2. geophysical data (file type cf-netcdf.nc).

Output-Files

1. ASCII tables (file type nc2table.csv) in CSV file format;
2. Metadata (filetype nc2table.txt) in readable form (text file);
3. (optional) informative printer file of program execution (file type nc2table.sdr)
4. (optional) trace of program execution (file type nc2table.trc)

Methodology

Binary data are extracted an printed in tabular form according to the user requirements.

Just in case HDF error is detected during read of a data record, the program tries to reconstruct the wanted data set from adjacent (in time) records for the same variable. This type of repair works for time dependent variables only.

Program(s) to run before this Program

DATACONVERT, GRIDCONVERT, NCAGGREGATE, NCANALYSE, NCDELTA, UNTRIM2007, UNTRIM2

Program(s) to run after this Program

spread sheet program, text editor

Additional Information

Language

Fortran95

Additional software

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Original Version

G. Lang

Maintenance

G. Lang

Documentation/Literature

template files available in $PROGHOME/examples/nc2table

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