Database Reference
In-Depth Information
data repository (you can find, as usual, a copy of this dataset in the topic's
dataset directory for this chapter):
How to do it...
Carry out the following steps:
1. As the first step, investigate the netCDF format of the dataset you down-
loaded using
gdalinfo
. This kind of dataset is composed of several sub-
datasets, as you must haverealized looking at the
gdalinfo
output:
$ gdalinfo NETCDF:"soilw.mon.ltm.v2.nc"
Driver: netCDF/Network Common Data Format
Files: none associated
Size is 512, 512
Coordinate System is `'
Metadata:NC_GLOBAL#Conventions=CF-1.0
NC_GLOBAL#history=Created 2011/08/31 by
doMonthLTM
NC_GLOBAL#institution=NOAA/ESRL PSD
NC_GLOBAL#not_missing_threshold_percent=minimum
3% values input to have non-missing
output value
NC_GLOBAL#references=http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/
soilmst/index.htm
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/
data.cpcsoil.html
NC_GLOBAL#title=CPC Soil Moisture
Subdatasets:
SUBDATASET_1_NAME=NETCDF:"soilw.mon.ltm.v2.nc":climatology_bounds
SUBDATASET_1_DESC=[12x2]
climatology_bounds (64-bit floating-point)
