How do I convert netCDF data to ASCII or text?
One way to convert netCDF data to text is to use the ncdump tool that is part of the netCDF software distribution. It is a command line tool that provides a text representation of all the netCDF data, just the structure of a netCDF file, or just the data for specified variables, depending on what arguments you use. For more information, see the ncdump documentation. Another good tool for conversion of netCDF data to text is the “ncks” program that’s one of the utility programs in the NCO (NetCDF Operators) package. Similar capabilities are available using programs from the CDO (Climate Data Operators) software, commands from NCL (NCAR Command Language), or various other packages such as ANAX, cdf2asc, the FAN nc2text utility, and NOESYS, all “third party” netCDF utilities developed and supported by other organizations. You can find more information about these third-party packages on the Software for Manipulating or Displaying NetCDF Data page. You can also get netCDF data in ASCII fro
