>I'd like to write a native grid to netCDF output. I've
>tried various combinations of attaching attributes
>etc, to little avail. The file has been read in correctly;
>ultimately the question is can I attach an array to
>a coordinate variable?
>
>Below is the fragment for attaching proper coords to
>what was read in. lat2d and lon2d are both separate
>arrays of 11000 unique lat and lon values
>(native grid over the pole).
>
>(This is from Dennis Shea's response to my
>earlier question about getting the lat/lon
>attached properly to the grid - it worked fine;
>thank you Dennis).
Preface comments:
The NCL variable model is *based* upon the basic netCDF
variable model. However, NCL's variable model has some
extensions to the strict netCDF variable model.
eg:
(a) NCL allows variables of type string.
netCDF does not [character only].
(b) NCL allows attributes to be multidimensional arrays
netCDF requires attributes to be 1D arrays only.
(c) Strict netCDF states that a "coordinate variable"
is a one-dimensional array of monotonically
{in/de}creasing values.
The previous response for graphics took advantage of
the (b). The gsn_csm* high level utilities recognize the
"lat2d"and "lon2d" attributes names and does what is
necessary to plot the data.
>
>Generic appraoch
>
>Say: x(lat,lon)
>
> nlat = 100
> mlon = 110
> npts = nlat*mlon
> ; assuming 2 col lat lon
> ltln = asciiread("foo.LatLon", (/npts,2/), "float")
>
> lat2d = onedtond(ltln(:,0), (/nlat,mlon/))
> lat2d@units = "degrees_north"
>
> lon2d = onedtond(ltln(:,1), (/nlat,mlon/))
> lon2d@units = "degrees_east"
>
> x@lat2d = lat2d
> x@lon2d = lon2d
>---------------------------------------------------------
>Any ideas? Perhaps it can't be done and I'll have
>to have a separate lat/lon file, as the original data
>were provided.
Because the underlying netCDF software does not allow 2D
attributes, the above could not be written to a netCDF file.
The above lat2d/lon2d variables must be written as separate
variables. Though they contain coordinates, they are not
strict netCDF coordinate variables.
There are more efficient ways to write netCDF in NCL
but the following 'simple' approach works
just fine if the number of variables and size of the
file is smallish.
diro = "./" ; output dir
filo = "foo.nc" ; output file name
system ("/bin/rm -f "+diro+filo)
fnc = addfile (diro+filo , "c")
fnc@title = "...."
fnc@creation_date = systemfunc("date")
if (isatt(x,"lat2d")) then
delete(x@lat2d)
end if
if (isatt(x,"lon2d")) then
delete(x@lon2d)
end if
fnc->LAT = lat2d ; LAT(LAT,LON)
fnc->LON = lon2D
fnc->X = x
good luck
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