/* This is part of the netCDF package. Copyright 2006 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research/Unidata. See COPYRIGHT file for conditions of use. This is a very simple example which writes a 2D array of sample data. To handle this in netCDF we create two shared dimensions, "X" and "Y", and a netCDF variable, called "data". 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: sfc_pres_temp_wr.cpp,v 1.6 2010/02/11 22:36:42 russ Exp $ */ #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 "sfc_pres_temp.nc" // We are writing 2D data, a 6 x 12 lat-lon grid. We will need two // netCDF dimensions. static const int NDIMS = 2; static const int NLAT = 6; static const int NLON = 12; // Names of things. string PRES_NAME = "pressure"; string TEMP_NAME = "temperature"; string UNITS = "units"; string DEGREES_EAST = "degrees_east"; string DEGREES_NORTH = "degrees_north"; string LAT_NAME = "latitude"; string LON_NAME ="longitude"; // 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 // Return this to OS if there is a failure. #define NC_ERR 2 int main(void) { // We will write surface temperature and pressure fields. float presOut[NLAT][NLON]; float tempOut[NLAT][NLON]; float lats[NLAT]; float lons[NLON]; // In addition to the latitude and longitude dimensions, we will // also create latitude and longitude netCDF variables which will // hold the actual latitudes and longitudes. Since they hold data // about the coordinate system, the netCDF term for these is: // "coordinate variables." 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; // 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++) for(int lon = 0;lon < NLON; lon++) { presOut[lat][lon] = SAMPLE_PRESSURE + (lon * NLAT + lat); tempOut[lat][lon] = SAMPLE_TEMP + .25 * (lon * NLAT +lat); } try { // Create the file. The Replace parameter tells netCDF to overwrite // this file, if it already exists. NcFile sfc(FILE_NAME, NcFile::replace); // Define the dimensions. NetCDF will hand back an ncDim object for // each. NcDim latDim = sfc.addDim(LAT_NAME, NLAT); NcDim lonDim = sfc.addDim(LON_NAME, NLON); // Define coordinate netCDF variables. They will hold the // coordinate information, that is, the latitudes and // longitudes. An pointer to a NcVar object is returned for // each. NcVar latVar = sfc.addVar(LAT_NAME, ncFloat, latDim);//creates variable NcVar lonVar = sfc.addVar(LON_NAME, ncFloat, lonDim); // Write the coordinate variable data. This will put the latitudes // and longitudes of our data grid into the netCDF file. latVar.putVar(lats); lonVar.putVar(lons); // Define units attributes for coordinate vars. This attaches a // text attribute to each of the coordinate variables, containing // the units. Note that we are not writing a trailing NULL, just // "units", because the reading program may be fortran which does // not use null-terminated strings. In general it is up to the // reading C program to ensure that it puts null-terminators on // strings where necessary. lonVar.putAtt(UNITS,DEGREES_EAST); latVar.putAtt(UNITS,DEGREES_NORTH); // Define the netCDF data variables. vector dims; dims.push_back(latDim); dims.push_back(lonDim); NcVar presVar = sfc.addVar(PRES_NAME, ncFloat, dims); NcVar tempVar = sfc.addVar(TEMP_NAME, ncFloat, dims); // Define units attributes for vars. presVar.putAtt(UNITS,"hPa"); tempVar.putAtt(UNITS,"celsius"); // Write the pretend data. This will write our surface pressure and // surface temperature data. The arrays of data are the same size // as the netCDF variables we have defined. presVar.putVar(presOut); tempVar.putVar(tempOut); // 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; } }