/* 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 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: simple_xy_wr_formats.cpp,v 1.1 2010/04/09 02:15:05 russ Exp $ */ #include #include #include using namespace std; using namespace netCDF; using namespace netCDF::exceptions; // We are writing 2D data, a 6 x 12 grid. static const int NX = 6; static const int NY = 12; // Return this in event of a problem. static const int NC_ERR = 2; int create_file(string filename, NcFile::FileFormat format) { // This is the data array we will write. It will just be filled // with a progression of numbers for this example. int dataOut[NX][NY]; // 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 i = 0; i < NX; i++) for(int j = 0; j < NY; j++) dataOut[i][j] = i * NY + j; // The default behavior of the C++ API is to throw an exception i // an error occurs. A try catch block is necessary. try { // Create the file. The Replace parameter tells netCDF to overwrite // this file, if it already exists. The classic parameter specifies // that the file ceated should be in classic format, rather than the // default netCDF-4 format used by the cxx4 interface. NcFile dataFile(filename, NcFile::replace, format); // Create netCDF dimensions NcDim xDim = dataFile.addDim("x", NX); NcDim yDim = dataFile.addDim("y", NY); // Define the variable. The type of the variable in this case is // ncInt (32-bit integer). vector dims; dims.push_back(xDim); dims.push_back(yDim); NcVar data = dataFile.addVar("data", ncInt, dims); // In the classic model, must explicitly leave define mode // before writing data. Need a method that calls nc_enddef(). // if(format != NcFile::nc4) // dataFile. // Write the data to the file. Although netCDF supports // reading and writing subsets of data, in this case we write all // the data in one operation. data.putVar(dataOut); // The file will be automatically closed when the NcFile object goes // out of scope. This frees up any internal netCDF resources // associated with the file, and flushes any buffers. //cout << "*** SUCCESS writing example file simple_xy.nc!" << endl; return 0; } catch(NcException& e) {e.what(); return NC_ERR; } } int main() { int ret; if(ret = create_file("simple_xy_nc4.nc", NcFile::nc4)) return ret; cout << "*** SUCCESS creating nc4 file" << endl; // The following three tests don't work yet. Uncomment when can write // files of nc4classic, classic, and classic64 formats. // if(ret = create_file("simple_xy_nc4classic.nc", NcFile::nc4classic)) // return ret; // cout << "*** SUCCESS creating nc4classic file" << endl; // if(ret = create_file("simple_xy_classic.nc", NcFile::classic)) // return ret; // cout << "*** SUCCESS creating classic file" << endl; // if(ret = create_file("simple_xy_classic64.nc", NcFile::classic64)) // return ret; // cout << "*** SUCCESS creating classic64 file" << endl; return 0; }