Tools for viewing netcdf

ncdump

ncdump will dump out all the raw data from a netCDF file to screen, e.g.

demo$ ncdump core_faam_20060216_r1_b175.nc

Usually there's lots of this that flashes before you, so you'll probably want to pipe the information through more, e.g.

demo$ ncdump core_faam_20060216_r1_b175.nc | more

You can just view the header with the -h flag, e.g.

demo$ ncdump -h core_faam_20060216_r1_b175.nc

or

demo$ ncdump -h core_faam_20060216_r1_b175.nc | more

ncview

I was going to say that ncview is very useful for getting a quick contour plot of a netCDF file. Except it doesn't seem to like these files: can't cope with the byte data, apparently. Shame, a later version may prove useful.

xconv

I think that xconv was written by Jeff Cole and is useful for viewing the data. Type

demo$ /home/jeff/bin/xconv &

and follow instructions. The instructions aren't very obvious but just click a lot of things and you should be able view what you want eventually.