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VAPOR is the Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, Atmosphere, and Solar Researchers
https://www.vapor.ucar.edu/
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More documentation and examples needed for getting data into VAPOR #1798

Open clyne opened 5 years ago

clyne commented 5 years ago

Documentation/Gettin Data in

We need more documentation, examples, and perhaps utilities to help users get data into VAPOR, such as:

  1. a concrete example of dealing with raw (aka binary) data. Options here are to convert to VDC, OR convert to a CF-compliant NetCDF file.

  2. More guidance on what subset of the NetCDF CF conventions are supported for common use cases: rectilinear grids, regular grids, curvilinear grids

clyne commented 3 years ago

A separate issue, #2704, has been opened for reading raw data directly. Given how quickly the broader scientific community has been adopting Jupyter Notebooks and Python, this might be a great opportunity to modernize some of our documentation efforts by providing a notebook(s) that illustrate how to use a Python script write a CF-compliant NetCDF file using either a NumPy array or an Xarray interface. Examples should be provided that cover a uniform grid, stretched grid, and a curvilinear grid.