MET Online Tutorial for METv8.0 | ASCII2NC > Output

When ASCII2NC is finished, you may view the output NetCDF files it wrote using the ncdump utility (if available on your machine). Run the following commands to view the headers of the NetCDF output files:

ncdump -h $MET_TUTORIAL_DATA/output/ascii2nc/tutorial_ascii.nc
ncdump -h $MET_TUTORIAL_DATA/output/ascii2nc/precip24_2010010112.nc

The NetCDF header should look nearly identical to the NetCDF output of PB2NC.

After running MADIS2NC to reformat MADIS data, we'll use the NetCDF output of PB2NC to perform Grid-to-Point verification with the Point-Stat tool.