[R] HIRHAM netcdf files

[Roy Mendelssohn]

I am not familiar with the HIRHAM netcdf files.  Do you have the netcdf library installed and can you print the output of the "ncdump -h" command on one of the files?


-Roy

On Jul 29, 2011, at 7:44 AM, Ana wrote:

> Can someone help me out with a "small" problem?
> 
> I've started using netcdf files recently, and I want to extract the grid id
> and also the coordinates from a HIRHAM netcdf file.
> I know how to extract a slice of dataset both in space and in time and I
> also know the area that this file should cover, however I have no idea
> regarding the reference for both LAT/LON and RLAT/RLON.
> 
> I tried already tried is ArcGIS to give the Lambert Conformal Conic
> projection as the spatial reference, by default arcgis gets the rlat and
> rlon for coordinates. however the resulting raster is displaced from were it
> should be.
> 
> Can someone help me with this?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> A.R.
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