On Mar 18, 2014, at 2:29 AM, Tabish Ansari <tabishumaransari@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I wish to retain only a few variables (mostly 4d and 3d) out of my wrf output (wrfout.nc) netcdf file. Originally is carries a lot of variables which I do not need.
>
> I know that there is a way to recompile WRF to output fewer variables but my requirements change with every simulation. So I need a methodology wherein, once the full netcdf file has been written out, I can create a subset nc file with only the variables of my interest so that it doesn't occupy too much space on disk. Currently one file is 200GB!
>
> Apart from the variables, I would also like to retain the global attributes (the metadata) of the original nc file.
>
> Is there a way to achieve this in NCL or otherwise?
Check out the netcdf operators, nco
http://nco.sourceforge.net
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