Hi Stuart....
If the GeoGrid is "ucar.nc2.dataset.grid.GeoGrid", then there is a
method, getCoordinateSystem() which returns a "GridCoordSys" object.
There are methods in there for getting a lat/lon bounding box, and
others:
<http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/v2.2.22/javadocAll/ucar/nc2/dataset/grid/GridCoordSys.html>
Hope that's what you are looking for....??
tom
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Stuart Maclean
<stuart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a GeoGrid object, derived from a nc file of a model run.
> using the cf1.0 conventions, the nc file describes say a lambert
> projection. The math type of my data may then be
>
> (Time -> ((XC[unit:km], YC[unit:km]) -> surface_temperature[unit:Pa]))
>
> I am now trying to convert the x,y grid 'points' back to lat,lon,
> since I need to produce a bounding box of the data according to some
> other projection.
>
> I cannot see how to proceed. is VisADMath.java helpful at all?
>
> I could always open the nc file manually, figure out the projection
> and Y, X variable values and convert all values to reference lat,lon,
> but I was hoping that this be done already in the IDV classes.
>
> Any help appreciated
>
> Stuart
>
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