Re: [Matplotlib-users] Quiver plot of a netcdf file

[Jeff W. <js...@fa...>]

Eric Firing wrote:
> Gökhan SEVER wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 1:09 PM, JPKay <ka...@va... 
>> <mailto:ka...@va...>> 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
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>>
>> 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).

-Jeff