Hi there,
I have two types of NetCDF datasets which I want to load them to dapper, so that they could be plotted with Dchart.
1) the first dataset is section profile dataset, and what we want to plot is the "station" dimension on x-axis and
the depth dimension on y-axis.
The dataset has the following dump (part of it):
netcdf topaz_V3_mersea_arctic_section01_dc_b20080625_f200807049999 {
dimensions:
station = 54 ;
depth = 33 ;
variables:
float longitude(station) ;
longitude:standard_name = "longitude" ;
longitude:units = "degrees_east" ;
longitude:valid_range = -180., 180. ;
longitude:long_name = "longitude" ;
float latitude(station) ;
latitude:units = "degrees_north" ;
latitude:valid_range = -90., 90. ;
latitude:standard_name = "latitude" ;
latitude:long_name = "latitude" ;
float model_depth(station) ;
model_depth:units = "meters" ;
model_depth:valid_range = 0., 9000. ;
model_depth:long_name = "model_depth" ;
model_depth:missing_value = -100000000000000. ;
model_depth:standard_name = "sea_floor_depth_below_sea_level" ;
model_depth:coordinates = "lash_reboot\000.pal_restart_block_read\000.pal" ;
int station(station) ;
station:long_name = "station" ;
station:units = "" ;
station:axis = "X" ;
float depth(depth) ;
depth:long_name = "depth" ;
depth:units = "m" ;
depth:valid_range = 0., 5501. ;
depth:standard_name = "depth" ;
depth:positive = "down" ;
float temperature(depth, station) ;
temperature:_FillValue = -1.e+14f ;
temperature:missing_value = -1.e+14f ;
temperature:long_name = "Potential temperature of sea water" ;
temperature:units = "degrees_celsius" ;
temperature:standard_name = "sea_water_potential_temperature" ;
}
2) the second dataset is a special time series:
netcdf topaz_V3_mersea_arctic_icetransport_b20080806_f200808059999 {
dimensions:
Transport_ID = 24 ;
N_CHAR30 = 30 ;
N_POINTS = 2 ;
variables:
float icetransport(Transport_ID) ;
icetransport:unit = "1000000 m^3 s-1" ;
icetransport:long_name = "Net Ice Volume Transport across section" ;
icetransport:reference = "mersea-ip" ;
char section(Transport_ID, N_CHAR30) ;
section:long_name = "Name of section" ;
float latitude(Transport_ID, N_POINTS) ;
latitude:long_name = "First (1) and last (2) latitude points of section" ;
latitude:units = "degrees_north" ;
float longitude(Transport_ID, N_POINTS) ;
longitude:long_name = "First (1) and last (2) longitude points of section" ;
longitude:units = "degrees_east" ;
// global attributes:
:title = "TOPAZ ice transport across sections" ;
:institution = "NERSC, Thormoehlens gate 47, N-5006 Bergen, Norway" ;
:comment = "Daily Average Fields" ;
:source = "NERSC-HYCOM model fields" ;
:references = "http://topaz.nersc.no" ;
:field_date = "20080805" ;
:bulletin_date = "20080806" ;
:bulletin_type = "Hindcast" ;
}
The question is:
It that possible to convert those datasets to one of the formats which are acceptable by dapper/dchart :
* ARGO GDAC netCDF (pdf description)
* ARGO NODC netCDF (description)
* EPIC netCDF (description)
* Opendap sequence data (must follow Dapper metadata conventions).
Which of them?
Thanks in advance for any suggestion,
Goran
Section profiles and sepcial tme series!!
Submitted by goranz on Wed, 11/12/2008 - 06:57
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Hi Goran, In my opinion,your
Hi Goran,
In my opinion,your netcdf data are acceptable by dapper/dchart.
If you want them could be plotted with Dchart, the work you need to do is create datasets & databases and config the .xml.