Hi Marteen, A Tuesday 21 December 2010 12:44:10 Maarten Sneep escrigué: > Hi, > > I'm working on some prototype software for atmospheric remote sensing > using a satellite instrument. The file formats involved in this > system are HDF-5 and possibly NetCDF-4. The input spectra are likely > to be stored in HDF-5, the output retrievals will use HDF-5 as well, > with two metadata conventions, see the list at the end. One of these > (CF) rather explicitly says NetCDF. As a bit of background, HDF is > commonly used by groups doing observations, while NetCDF is used by > modelers. We'd like to make it easy for modelers to use our > observations. > > Long story short: Is it possible to produce a file with PyTables that > can be read with the NetCDF-4 library? After all, NetCDF-4 is now > based on HDF-5 (but adds other metadata). How should I approach > that? And while we determined that the two metadata standards do not > bite each other, where should I start with this task? Needless to > say I'd like to stick with pytables.
Well, I've never checked that, but my guess is that it should be possible (as you said, NetCDF4 is based on HDF5). I'd say that the best would be to do a try (you can use python-netcdf4 for reading PyTables- generated files). Tell us how it goes, -- Francesc Alted ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d _______________________________________________ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
