I've never had much luck with NetCDF over Grass so I used Grads (from COLA) in order open and manipulate the files and export as binary grids. Then I'd import them with r.in.bin. But you still need to know the coordinates and resolution of the cells
Daniel On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Thomas, Timothy (IFPRI) <[email protected]> wrote: > I am having a problem loading the IPCC GCMs into GRASS. You can find one of > them at > http://www.ipcc-data.org/cgi-bin/downl/ar4_nc/pr/BCM2_SRA1B_pr_c30b.tar. > They are in NetCDF format. The problem, I believe, is two-fold. First, > the grid is an irregular shape, 512 by 512 cells for the whole earth. > Second, it does not appear to have degrees as bounds. It may also have a > third difficulty that I have not yet encountered, and that is how to get the > desired band (which is the fourth one). Has anyone else tried loading these > and could recommend a command or series of commands? Thanks! > > > > Tim > > > > *************************************************************** > > > > Timothy S. Thomas > > Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) > > 2033 K St. NW, Washington, DC 20006-1002 (Room 5035) > > [email protected] www.ifpri.org > > (w) +1-202-862-4605 (f) +1-202-467-4439 > > skype: timothy.s.thomas > > > > _______________________________________________ > grass-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user > > _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
