topic Re: NetCDF conversion in Data Management Questions

NetCDF conversion

BenjaminBranch — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:28:44 GMT

Hello,

Is there a batch process for conversion of NetCDF files to shapefiles?
What are the limitations?

What attributes could be lost?
I'm particulary interested in the time aspects and transfer use of time awareness features in tracking analysis or the tracking server.

Thanks,
Dewayne

Re: NetCDF conversion

DaleHoneycutt — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:45:51 GMT

We have tools for operating on NetCDF data. See the Multidimension toolbox: (http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/An_overview_of_the_Multidimension_toolbox/004300000002000000/)

There's also a book of topics in the help system about working with NetCDF. Here's the first topic of the book: http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/What_is_netCDF_data/004600000001000000/

Make NetCDF Raster Layer

LeifBrottem — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:50:17 GMT

hello,

I am working with hundreds of netCDF files so I used a python script to successfully 'Make NetCDF Raster Layer' in order to load the files into ARC. Although the script ran, I'm not exactlly sure what it did. There aren't any resulting layers that I can see. Is there another additional step (that I can do with a python script) that I'm missing here in order to have usable raster data?

thanks

Re: Make NetCDF Raster Layer

mercebarnolas — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:59:06 GMT

I think that you can't see them because they are raster layers. After the 'Make NetCDF Raster Layer' try to convert the outputs into raster datasets (for ex. with a 'copy raster')

hello,

I am working with hundreds of netCDF files so I used a python script to successfully 'Make NetCDF Raster Layer' in order to load the files into ARC. Although the script ran, I'm not exactlly sure what it did. There aren't any resulting layers that I can see. Is there another additional step (that I can do with a python script) that I'm missing here in order to have usable raster data?

thanks

Re: NetCDF conversion

PamFroemke — Thu, 24 May 2012 21:25:13 GMT

I am also working with hundreds of netCDF files and have not been successful with a Python batch script. Could you possibly post your script, leifbrottem?
I've tried a for loop with the ListDatasets command and it doesn't seem to understand the *.nc files I have.