Hi Don, Roy,
> TDS might be able to just serve up the data if you point to the ctl
> file, but I'm not sure. Perhaps Ethan or John could comment on that.
Sounds right. Basically, any file the netCDF-Java library can open can
be pointed to in the TDS config catalogs and served by the TDS.
Ethan
On 4/17/2012 3:29 PM, Don Murray wrote:
> Roy-
>
> On 4/17/12 3:21 PM, Roy Mendelssohn wrote:
>> Sorry this is OT, but it could really help an important project that
>> we have ongoing. Does anyone have code that will take the (flat)
>> binary output produced from some COAMPS runs and convert it to
>> (NetCDF, Grib, hdf)? We are indifferent as to exactly which format it
>> gets converted to, as long as it produces output that can be stuck in
>> thredds. We have the code to read the binary, but that is not the
>> same as correctly writing it out into one of the other formats.
>
> If you can generate a GrADS Data Descriptor File (ctl) that describes
> binary, you can use the netCDF-Java GrADS IOSP that I wrote to convert it.
>
> I think you can do the conversion using:
>
> java ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset -in <fileIn> -out <fileOut>
>
> which should work for any IOSP. In this case, fileIn would be the ctl
> file.
>
> TDS might be able to just serve up the data if you point to the ctl
> file, but I'm not sure. Perhaps Ethan or John could comment on that.
>
> Don
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