Hi Marti,
> Hello. I’m exploring reading Argo float data for my python course
> I’m taking from Penn State University. I need to create shapefiles
> for the ESRI ArcGIS 9.3 product.
>
> My script is working for the NOAA NODC provided .txt files. Using a
> built in function from ArcGIS, I can get some of the netCDF files
> into a shapfile, but I see errors in values and I cannot always
> consistently create the vertical distribution of measurements for
> temperature and pressure.
>
> Any ideas? I tried using the free tool NOAA NODC gives away that is
> supposed to dump the netCDF file to Excel, but it’s not working.
>
> Is there a way to dump a netCDF file to an ASCII text file that is
> fairly easy to interpret what the values mean? For example will I
> see a header line that labels, rows, and columns of data?
Here's the FAQ entry for the question "How do I convert netCDF data to
ASCII or text?"
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/faq.html#converttotext
--Russ
