Hi Mark,
usually ncks -A file file2 will do.
Martin
ncdigest writes:
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> ncdigest Tuesday, October 7 2003 Volume 01 : Number 726
>
>
>
> Today's Topics:
> appending arbitrary netCDF files
> Re: appending arbitrary netCDF files
> 20031007:Forwarded post for Matthew Hanna
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> Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 13:55:00 -0600
> From: "Mark A Ohrenschall" <Mark.A.Ohrenschall@xxxxxxxx>
> Subject: appending arbitrary netCDF files
>
> Hello,
>
> I know I can use ncks to append two netCDF files which share a common
> dimension, but I'd like to append two netCDF files which have (syntactically)
> nothing in common. No shared dimensions, coordinates, nada. I just want a
> combined netCDF file.
>
> Is there any way to do this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 14:40:43 -0600
> From: John Caron <caron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: appending arbitrary netCDF files
>
> Mark A Ohrenschall wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >I know I can use ncks to append two netCDF files which share a common
> >dimension, but I'd like to append two netCDF files which have
> >(syntactically)
> >nothing in common. No shared dimensions, coordinates, nada. I just want a
> >combined netCDF file.
> >
> >Is there any way to do this?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Mark
> >
> >
> ncml can be used to create a "union" of two or more files. you can use
> ucar.nc2.dataset.FileWriter to then copy to a physical netcdf file.
>
> see
>
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/ncml/NetcdfAggregation.html
>
> for more info on how to write the ncml.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 14:52:51 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Jeff Weber <jweber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: 20031007:Forwarded post for Matthew Hanna
>
> Hello once again! I just want to thank everyone who responded to my
> post earlier. The question concerned Navo's NetCDF convention and how
> to store longitude and latitude data for an irregular grid. The
> predefined lat and lon variables were coordinate variables and, as such,
> 1 dimensional. I needed to store 2 dimensional coordinates. For the
> moment, we have decided that we will be using the most common suggestion
> which was to use coordinate variables, such as x(x) and y(y), as indices
> into longitude(x, y) and latitude(x, y) variables. This will suffice
> and work quite well for our purposes. That decision may change in the
> coming month however since I have learned that there are some predefined
> grid variables, grid_lon and grid_lat, that may be of use. These new
> variables are not well described and I haven't heard from Navo about
> them yet. Once again, thank you to everyone who offered suggestions and
> help.
>
>
>
> Matthew Hanna
>
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