Converting .dat to .nc
Added by Lucas Do over 4 years ago
Hello,
I'm trying to convert a .dat file that has lat/lon fields to .nc to be mapped. From previous threads here it seems that I do so in CDO using a gridfile, but I've been unable to set one up successfully.
Attached are the .dat file I want to convert, a .nc4 file that has the proper time/lat/lon, and the gridfile I've been trying to use.
Any help with this will be appreciated.
-Lucas
Replies (2)
RE: Converting .dat to .nc - Added by Karin Meier-Fleischer over 4 years ago
Hi Lucas,
sorry, but cdo is not able to handle this kind of data.
Your data (snippet):
Lat Lon Year Day DVS WLV WST WSO WRT 42.75 -92.25 1950 243 2.01 724.31 4969.89 6948.55 1295.55 0.79 ... 42.75 -92.25 1951 283 2.00 541.69 3164.83 5733.74 1303.49 0.54 ... 42.75 -92.25 1952 254 2.01 729.46 4125.05 8992.05 1133.29 0.87 ... 42.75 -92.25 1953 250 2.01 629.51 4040.33 1839.35 1307.52 0.71 ... ... 42.75 -92.25 2003 284 2.00 518.82 3161.21 5696.08 1072.08 0.53 ... 42.75 -92.25 2004 272 2.00 961.94 4073.89 8161.42 1454.82 0.96 ... 42.75 -92.25 2005 289 2.00 751.27 2812.09 9403.57 871.56 0.79 ... 42.25 -92.25 1950 239 2.01 845.26 5172.65 7003.93 1532.19 0.89 ... 42.25 -92.25 1951 290 2.00 550.46 2915.69 5617.23 1155.08 0.56 ... ...
You can use a shell script to extract the variable you need and sort it by time. Or you use NCL to read the data and bring the data in an acceptable format to write it to a netCDF file.
-Karin
RE: Converting .dat to .nc - Added by Lucas Do over 4 years ago
Karin,
Thanks for the reply, I'll look into doing that.
-Lucas