/*! \file Example program for reading a 4D netCDF file \ingroup tutorial This is an example which reads some 4D pressure and temperatures. The data file read by this program is produced by the companion program pres_temp_4D_wr.c. It is intended to illustrate the use of the netCDF C API. This is part of the netCDF package. Copyright 2006-2011 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research/Unidata. See COPYRIGHT file for conditions of use. Full documentation of the netCDF can be found at http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs. */ #include #include #include /* This is the name of the data file we will read. */ #define FILE_NAME "pres_temp_4D.nc" /* We are reading 4D data, a 2 x 6 x 12 lvl-lat-lon grid, with 2 timesteps of data. */ #define NDIMS 4 #define NLAT 6 #define NLON 12 #define LAT_NAME "latitude" #define LON_NAME "longitude" #define NREC 2 #define REC_NAME "time" #define LVL_NAME "level" #define NLVL 2 /* Names of things. */ #define PRES_NAME "pressure" #define TEMP_NAME "temperature" #define UNITS "units" #define DEGREES_EAST "degrees_east" #define DEGREES_NORTH "degrees_north" /* These are used to calculate the values we expect to find. */ #define SAMPLE_PRESSURE 900 #define SAMPLE_TEMP 9.0 #define START_LAT 25.0 #define START_LON -125.0 /* For the units attributes. */ #define UNITS "units" #define PRES_UNITS "hPa" #define TEMP_UNITS "celsius" #define LAT_UNITS "degrees_north" #define LON_UNITS "degrees_east" #define MAX_ATT_LEN 80 /* Handle errors by printing an error message and exiting with a * non-zero status. */ #define ERR(e) {printf("Error: %s\n", nc_strerror(e)); return 2;} int main() { int ncid, pres_varid, temp_varid; int lat_varid, lon_varid; /* The start and count arrays will tell the netCDF library where to read our data. */ size_t start[NDIMS], count[NDIMS]; /* Program variables to hold the data we will read. We will only need enough space to hold one timestep of data; one record. */ float pres_in[NLVL][NLAT][NLON]; float temp_in[NLVL][NLAT][NLON]; /* These program variables hold the latitudes and longitudes. */ float lats[NLAT], lons[NLON]; /* Loop indexes. */ int lvl, lat, lon, rec, i = 0; /* Error handling. */ int retval; /* Open the file. */ if ((retval = nc_open(FILE_NAME, NC_NOWRITE, &ncid))) ERR(retval); /* Get the varids of the latitude and longitude coordinate * variables. */ if ((retval = nc_inq_varid(ncid, LAT_NAME, &lat_varid))) ERR(retval); if ((retval = nc_inq_varid(ncid, LON_NAME, &lon_varid))) ERR(retval); /* Read the coordinate variable data. */ if ((retval = nc_get_var_float(ncid, lat_varid, &lats[0]))) ERR(retval); if ((retval = nc_get_var_float(ncid, lon_varid, &lons[0]))) ERR(retval); /* Check the coordinate variable data. */ for (lat = 0; lat < NLAT; lat++) if (lats[lat] != START_LAT + 5.*lat) return 2; for (lon = 0; lon < NLON; lon++) if (lons[lon] != START_LON + 5.*lon) return 2; /* Get the varids of the pressure and temperature netCDF * variables. */ if ((retval = nc_inq_varid(ncid, PRES_NAME, &pres_varid))) ERR(retval); if ((retval = nc_inq_varid(ncid, TEMP_NAME, &temp_varid))) ERR(retval); /* Read the data. Since we know the contents of the file we know * that the data arrays in this program are the correct size to * hold one timestep. */ count[0] = 1; count[1] = NLVL; count[2] = NLAT; count[3] = NLON; start[1] = 0; start[2] = 0; start[3] = 0; /* Read and check one record at a time. */ for (rec = 0; rec < NREC; rec++) { start[0] = rec; if ((retval = nc_get_vara_float(ncid, pres_varid, start, count, &pres_in[0][0][0]))) ERR(retval); if ((retval = nc_get_vara_float(ncid, temp_varid, start, count, &temp_in[0][0][0]))) ERR(retval); /* Check the data. */ i = 0; for (lvl = 0; lvl < NLVL; lvl++) for (lat = 0; lat < NLAT; lat++) for (lon = 0; lon < NLON; lon++) { if (pres_in[lvl][lat][lon] != SAMPLE_PRESSURE + i) return 2; if (temp_in[lvl][lat][lon] != SAMPLE_TEMP + i) return 2; i++; } } /* next record */ /* Close the file. */ if ((retval = nc_close(ncid))) ERR(retval); printf("*** SUCCESS reading example file pres_temp_4D.nc!\n"); return 0; }