Chris Pelkie wrote: > > General array format is good for simple problems. I abhor it for > anything more complicated. > > My advice is to use it only to Import your data, then Export it > back to .dx format. > > Then, you'll have nice DX native files to work with. Now, search > the mail archive for one of my (or other people's) past writeups > on how to structure a 'series' file given a set of similar .dx > files. Once you have the 'series.dx' file, Import, Stack, and > visualize. And/or Import data "a" series and with another Import, > import data "b" series, then stitch them into a series of [a,b] > as per Donna's note. > > Life is much saner when you use .dx format, not general arrays > and it's very easy to use DX to preprocess data in this way, > once you have the .general header figured out. (Alternatively, > you can use ImportSpreadsheet to import simple data sets, > condition them, and Export, but you probably don't need that > at this time.)
Thanks for the ideas Chris. I agree that it would be easier in general to work with .dx files but since we have hundreds of NetCDF files, I'd like to be able to work with them directly rather than convert them to .dx format. It will be simpler for our researchers and it will save on storage too. I'll give Donna's suggestion a try and let you know how it goes. Steve -- ______________________________________________________________________ Steve Cousins, Ocean Modeling Group Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marine Sciences, 208 Libby Hall http://rocky.umeoce.maine.edu Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME 04469 Phone: (207) 581-4302
