Table of Content

Table of Content#

This tutorial is composed of the following chapters:

  1. An Introduction to netCDF

  2. An Introduction to the CF Conventions

  3. Create netCDF for gridded data with Xarray: This chapter contains a brief introduction to the syntax of the xarray package. Please have a look here if you have difficulties understanding the code in other chapters.

  4. Create netCDF for time series data: This chapter contains the most comprehensive examples of DSG data representations in the CF Conventions. If you can’t find a specific data representation you are looking for in Chapters 5-7, please check it out here.

  5. Create netCDF for profile data: If you are looking for a solution with ‘loop functions’ to create netCDF, the sample solution in this chapter might be helpful.

  6. Create netCDF for trajectory data

  7. Create netCDF for compound data