st: Reading NetCDF files

[Gordon Hughes <G.A.Hughes@ed.ac.uk>]

Dear Statalist,

Is anyone aware of a Stata user-written routine or other method of 
importing data stored in NetCDF files into Stata?

As background, NetCDF denotes the Network Common Data Form, a binary 
file format which is widely used for climate data and other data 
compiled by geophysicists, earth scientists, etc.

There are libraries written in C, Fortran & Java which can be used to 
read NetCDF files but I was trying to avoid the need to special 
purpose routines to extract the data.  In addition, I believe that 
there are R modules which can read NetCDF files, but this means a 
struggle to remember the details of R data structures.

I would be very grateful for any suggestions.

Gordon Hughes
g.a.hughes@ed.ac.uk 

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