G5NR Data Access Guide

Client access

In the following, we read the field 'T' (air temperature) from collection http://opendap.nccs.nasa.gov:9090/dods/OSSE/GEOS-5.12/BETA9/0.5000_deg/inst/inst01hr_3d_T_Cv.

Programming

These are simple programs to read the air temperature and compute its min/max. These codes require an opendap enabled NetCDF-4 library. The utility nc-config/nf-config bundled with the NetCDF-4 installation can be used to determine the necessary compiler flags.

Fortran

program g5nr_reader

  use netcdf           ! for reading the NR files                                                                               

  implicit none

  !  File name                                                                                                                 
  !  ---------                                                                                                                 
  character(len=256) :: T_file

  !  Global, 4D array: (lon,lat,lev,time)                                                                                      
  !  ------------------------------------ 
  real, pointer :: T(:,:,:,:) => null()

  !  Miscellaneous                                                                                                              
  !  -------------                                                                                                              
  integer :: ierr
  integer :: im, jm, lm
  integer :: ncid, varid
  integer :: start(4), count(4)

  !  For now hard code file name and dimensions                                                                                
  !  ------------------------------------------                                                                                
  im = 720
  jm = 361
  lm = 72
  T_file = "http://opendap.nccs.nasa.gov:9090/dods/OSSE/GEOS-5.12/BETA9/0.5000_deg/inst/inst01hr_3d_T_Cv"

  !  Allocate the Global 4-D array with only 1 time level                                                                      
  !  ----------------------------------------------------                                                                      
  allocate(T(im,jm,lm,1))

  !  Hypercube for reading one 1 array for a given time                                                                         
  !  -------------------------------------------------                                                                          
  start = (/  1,  1,  1, 37 /)   ! time level 37                                                                                
  count = (/ im, jm, lm, 1  /)   ! 1 time level, 3D (lon,lat,lev) array                                                         

  !  Read the data file                                                                                                         
  !  ------------------                                                                                                         
  write(*,*)'Reading T'
  call check( nf90_open(T_file,NF90_NOWRITE,ncid), "opening T file")
  call check( nf90_inq_varid(ncid,"t",varid), "getting T varid")
  call check( nf90_get_var(ncid,varid,T,start=start,count=count), "reading T")
  call check( nf90_close(ncid), "closing T file")

  !  Orint min/max of arrays                                                                                                    
  !  -----------------------                                                                                                    
  write(*,*)'T: ', maxval(T),minval(T)

  !  All done                                                                                                                   
  !  --------                                                                                                                   

contains

  subroutine check(status, loc)

    integer, intent(in) :: status
    character(len=*), intent(in) :: loc

    if(status /= NF90_NOERR) then
       write (*,*) "Error at ", loc
       write (*,*) NF90_STRERROR(status)
    end if

  end subroutine check

end program g5nr_reader

Free clients

IDV

IDV is an OPeNDAP tool that can access and display the nature run data. In our OPenDAP server, all files are time aggregated, so they appear as a single dataset for each location.

This is an example to open and display the field 'T' (air temperature) from the collection 'inst01hr_3d_T_Cv'. The OPenDAP URL for this dataset is http://opendap.nccs.nasa.gov:80/dods/OSSE/GEOS-5.12/BETA9/0.5000_deg/inst/inst01hr_3d_T_Cv. The following steps are valid for IDV version 5.0u1 running on a Linux desktop.

From the 'Dashboard' panel

• Select Data Choosers -> URLS.In the URL field, enter the above OPenDAP URL and click on 'Add Source'

• Select Field Selector and choose the 3D field'air_temperature'. The 'Times' tab lists all the available levels and times for this data. At this point, one can select specific times, level and regions (subsetting) from the 'Times' and 'Level' and 'Region' tabs. Click on 'Create Display'.