John et al,
Thanks for the input. I actually came across the NetcdfCFFileWriter class
right after I sent the email and am having great success using it to write out
subsetted files. I haven't tried combining datasets yet, but when I get to it
I'm sure I'll be back to ask questions!!
For now - I have a question regarding Structures/groups. My procedures work
great for the majority of the gridded datasets I've come across thus far.
However, if the file contains structures (which themselves contain variables),
I'm running into problems when I go to write the file to disk. Essentially,
the problem is that the variable names contain "." in them (for example
"N4YRH.absuu") and are raising a "NetcdfFileWriteable.write illegal variable
name = N4YRH.absuu" error (complete error message below).
How can I deal with this? I've tried replacing the "." with a "_" before I
pass the variable list to the FileWriter.writeVariables(), but the "Structure"
name ("N4YRH") still gets appended and the same error occurs except instead of
"N4YRH.absuu", the illegal name is "N4YRH.N4YRH_absuu".
Here is the link to the dataset I'm referring to above:
http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.CHRIS/dods
and here's the error message:
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException:
NetcdfFileWriteable.write illegal variable name = N4YRH.absuu
at ucar.nc2.NetcdfFileWriteable.write(NetcdfFileWriteable.java:538)
at ucar.nc2.NetcdfFileWriteable.write(NetcdfFileWriteable.java:477)
at ucar.nc2.FileWriter.copyAll(FileWriter.java:267)
at ucar.nc2.FileWriter.copyVarData(FileWriter.java:223)
at ucar.nc2.FileWriter.finish(FileWriter.java:459)
at
com.asascience.opendaptest.NetcdfGridWriter.writeFile(NetcdfGridWriter.java:117)
at
com.asascience.opendaptest.GridReader.extractData2(GridReader.java:161)
at
com.asascience.opendaptest.OpendapInterface.extractData(OpendapInterface.java:314)
at
com.asascience.opendaptest.LinkingPanel$5.actionPerformed(LinkingPanel.java:485)
at
javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:1882)
at
javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2202)
at
javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:420)
at
javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:258)
at
javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(BasicButtonListener.java:234)
at
java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseReleased(AWTEventMulticaster.java:231)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:5554)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3126)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:5319)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2010)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4021)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2068)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:3869)
at
java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4256)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:3936)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:3866)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2054)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:1774)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:3869)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:463)
at
java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:269)
at
java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:190)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:184)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:176)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:110)
Thanks for the help!!!
Chris
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Caron [mailto:caron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 7:34 PM
To: Christopher Mueller
Cc: netcdf-java@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [netcdf-java] combining and writing geogrids
Christopher Mueller wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
>
>
> I'm curious if anyone out there can help me with some questions I have
> about GeoGrids. Specifically I'm wondering if anyone knows how I can go
> about the process of combining multiple GeoGrids into one "object" and
> then write that object to a local .nc file. Thus far, I've succeeded in
> connecting to an opendap server, getting a single geogrid, subsampling
> it and using the GeoGrid.writeFile() method to create a local file.
> I've noticed that the javadoc for GeoGrid says not to use the writeFile
> method - but I couldn't see another way of getting the data to disk.
>
>
>
> So my first question is - what is the correct method for writing the
> contents of a GeoGrid to a local file?? I've checked out
> NetcdfFileWriteable, but that doesn't allow me to add a GeoGrid (at
> least not directly).
ucar.nc2.dt.grid.NetcdfCFWriter is a helper class that replaces
grid.writeFile(). It writes CF compliant files. It's still a bit rough but
probably will work for you.
>
>
>
> My second question is - is there a way to combine multiple geogrids so
> that their contents can be written to a single file. For example - if
> my opendap dataset has U, V, and Temp variables, I'd like them all to be
> written to a single file. My geogrid.writeFile method produces a
> dataset for each at this point
As you will see from the API, you have to construct a ucar.nc2.dt.GridDataset
object. You can do this from an opendap dataset, just like any other dataset,
see ucar.nc2.dt.grid.GridDataset.open(). If you dont want all the Geogrids, you
will have to remove the ones you dont want. It should work, but we havent
tested that particular case.
>
>
>
> In relation to this second question - how would I combine geogrids from
> 2 separate opendap sources - assuming that they are identical aside from
> the variable(s) of interest?
Again, you would construct a ucar.nc2.dt.GridDataset and use NetcdfCFWriter to
write it out. It may be tricky to get the GridDataset right, we've never
attempted to combine from 2 different sources.
>
>
>
>
>
> Thank you in advance for your help - it's most appreciated.
good luck!
>
>
>
> Chris
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