Greetings!
I'm happy to hear you are finding the library useful! If you are using
netcdf-java 4.6.x, I would recommend using the grid feature type, which
sits at the highest level of the CDM API:
https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/thredds/current/netcdf-java/tutorial/GridDatatype.html
Under the "Using a GridDataset" section, there is an example of how to read
the value of a grid given a specific lat/lon.
Cheers!
Sean Arms, PhD
Software Engineer
UCAR/UCP/Unidata
https://staff.ucar.edu/users/sarms
On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 10:38 AM Harold <harold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> First, thanks for this lib; it is very helpful and I don't know where
we'd be without it.
>
> I encountered my first netcdf (.grib2) files recently, and hope to access
the data therein to verify the output of another system.
>
> Here's an example file, if that helps:
> -
https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/tech.public.data/grib2-test/3600.grib2
>
> I found PanoplyJ, which works great, and summarizes the file like this:
> - https://i.imgur.com/VJXnpWH.png
>
> I am using the java libs `edu.ucar/cdm` and `edu.ucar/grib`, both at
version 4.6.13 - which also work great and open the file without trouble.
>
> My intention is to verify the contents of this file against a different
dataset which expresses surface location with lat/lng, while this grib2
file has x/y (under a Lambert conformal mapping).
>
> The path I found through the lib yesterday is:
> 1) NetcdfDataset/openDataset
> 2) .getVariables and store a reference to the
`LambertConformal_Projection` variable
> 3) Construct a `LambertConformalConic` and call
`.makeCoordinateTransform` with the dataset and the variable
> 4) From that I can `.getProjection`
> 5) Then I make a `float[][]` out of the separate x/y variables
> 6) Then I can call `.projToLatLon` with the projection and the `float[][]`
> 7) After this I go linear over the contents of the `Temperature_surface`
variable associating each one with the correct lat/lng.
>
> This actually works, but I am wondering if there is a better way.
>
> I have a feeling that there is some higher level API that I missed that
would do all this more automatically, and possibly more generally. My code
feels brittle and over-specific to this particular file.
>
> Or, put another way, how best to (given a lat/lng) query the temp at that
location in this file?
>
> With warm appreciation for your time,
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