Eric Firing wrote: > Gökhan SEVER wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 1:09 PM, JPKay <kay1...@vandals.uidaho.edu >> <mailto:kay1...@vandals.uidaho.edu>> wrote: >> >> >> Hello, >> I am trying to use matplotlib to create a quiver plot of a NetCDF >> file with >> the extension .nc. The Netcdf file is a series of arrays that contain >> information about the stress tensors on a globe. >> >> I am struggling to import the file into python and having the quiver >> data >> show up. >> To import the file I have been using: >> “ncdump file.nc <http://file.nc>” >> >> >> Any thoughts would be appreciated. >> Thanks, >> Jon >> -- >> View this message in context: >> >> http://www.nabble.com/Quiver-plot-of-a-netcdf-file-tp23986313p23986313.html >> Sent from the matplotlib - users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> I recommend you to check netcdf4-python >> (http://code.google.com/p/netcdf4-python/) >> You can load both netcdf3 and 4 files. Additionally, there are date >> conversion utilities which help to do transforms between numbers and >> dates and vice versa. >> > > Caution: it's great, and I use it, but it is not trivial to build and > install. I think the OP would do best to start with pupynere. The web > site for download looks like it is working: > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pupynere/ > > Eric > > > Note that if the OP is using basemap, an interface to pupynere is already included (see http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/basemap/doc/html/api/basemap_api.html#mpl_toolkits.basemap.NetCDFFile).
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