/* This is part of the netCDF package. Copyright 2006 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research/Unidata. See COPYRIGHT file for conditions of use. This is an example program which writes some 4D pressure and temperatures. This example demonstrates the netCDF C++ API. This is part of the netCDF tutorial: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/netcdf-tutorial Full documentation of the netCDF C++ API can be found at: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/netcdf-cxx $Id: pres_temp_4D_wr.cpp,v 1.6 2010/02/11 22:36:42 russ Exp $ */ #include #include #include using namespace std; using namespace netCDF; using namespace netCDF::exceptions; // This is the name of the data file we will create. #define FILE_NAME "pres_temp_4D.nc" // We are writing 4D data, a 2 x 6 x 12 lvl-lat-lon grid, with 2 // timesteps of data. #define NDIMS 4 #define NLVL 2 #define NLAT 6 #define NLON 12 #define NREC 2 // Names of things. #define LVL_NAME "level" #define LAT_NAME "latitude" #define LON_NAME "longitude" #define REC_NAME "time" #define PRES_NAME "pressure" #define TEMP_NAME "temperature" #define MAX_ATT_LEN 80 // These are used to construct some example data. #define SAMPLE_PRESSURE 900 #define SAMPLE_TEMP 9.0 #define START_LAT 25.0 #define START_LON -125.0 string UNITS = "units"; string DEGREES_EAST = "degrees_east"; string DEGREES_NORTH = "degrees_north"; // For the units attributes. string PRES_UNITS = "hPa"; string TEMP_UNITS = "celsius"; string LAT_UNITS = "degrees_north"; string LON_UNITS = "degrees_east"; // Return this code to the OS in case of failure. #define NC_ERR 2 int main() { // We will write latitude and longitude fields. float lats[NLAT],lons[NLON]; // Program variables to hold the data we will write out. We will // only need enough space to hold one timestep of data; one record. float pres_out[NLVL][NLAT][NLON]; float temp_out[NLVL][NLAT][NLON]; int i=0; //used in the data generation loop // create some pretend data. If this wasn't an example program, we // would have some real data to write for example, model output. for (int lat = 0; lat < NLAT; lat++) lats[lat] = START_LAT + 5. * lat; for (int lon = 0; lon < NLON; lon++) lons[lon] = START_LON + 5. * lon; for (int lvl = 0; lvl < NLVL; lvl++) for (int lat = 0; lat < NLAT; lat++) for (int lon = 0; lon < NLON; lon++) { pres_out[lvl][lat][lon] =(float) (SAMPLE_PRESSURE + i); temp_out[lvl][lat][lon] = (float)(SAMPLE_TEMP + i++); } try { // Create the file. NcFile test(FILE_NAME, NcFile::replace); // Define the dimensions. NetCDF will hand back an ncDim object for // each. NcDim lvlDim = test.addDim(LVL_NAME, NLVL); NcDim latDim = test.addDim(LAT_NAME, NLAT); NcDim lonDim = test.addDim(LON_NAME, NLON); NcDim recDim = test.addDim(REC_NAME); //adds an unlimited dimension // Define the coordinate variables. NcVar latVar = test.addVar(LAT_NAME, ncFloat, latDim); NcVar lonVar = test.addVar(LON_NAME, ncFloat, lonDim); // Define units attributes for coordinate vars. This attaches a // text attribute to each of the coordinate variables, containing // the units. latVar.putAtt(UNITS, DEGREES_NORTH); lonVar.putAtt(UNITS, DEGREES_EAST); // Define the netCDF variables for the pressure and temperature // data. vector dimVector; dimVector.push_back(recDim); dimVector.push_back(lvlDim); dimVector.push_back(latDim); dimVector.push_back(lonDim); NcVar pressVar = test.addVar(PRES_NAME, ncFloat, dimVector); NcVar tempVar = test.addVar(TEMP_NAME, ncFloat, dimVector); // Define units attributes for coordinate vars. This attaches a // text attribute to each of the coordinate variables, containing // the units. pressVar.putAtt(UNITS, PRES_UNITS); tempVar.putAtt(UNITS, TEMP_UNITS); // Write the coordinate variable data to the file. latVar.putVar(lats); lonVar.putVar(lons); // Write the pretend data. This will write our surface pressure and // surface temperature data. The arrays only hold one timestep // worth of data. We will just rewrite the same data for each // timestep. In a real application, the data would change between // timesteps. vector startp,countp; startp.push_back(0); startp.push_back(0); startp.push_back(0); startp.push_back(0); countp.push_back(1); countp.push_back(NLVL); countp.push_back(NLAT); countp.push_back(NLON); for (size_t rec = 0; rec < NREC; rec++) { startp[0]=rec; pressVar.putVar(startp,countp,pres_out); tempVar.putVar(startp,countp,temp_out); } // The file is automatically closed by the destructor. This frees // up any internal netCDF resources associated with the file, and // flushes any buffers. //cout << "*** SUCCESS writing example file " << FILE_NAME << "!" << endl; return 0; } catch(NcException& e) { e.what(); return NC_ERR; } }