I am not familiar with the HIRHAM netcdf files. Do you have the netcdf library installed and can you print the output of the "ncdump -h" command on one of the files?
-Roy On Jul 29, 2011, at 7:44 AM, Ana wrote: > Can someone help me out with a "small" problem? > > I've started using netcdf files recently, and I want to extract the grid id > and also the coordinates from a HIRHAM netcdf file. > I know how to extract a slice of dataset both in space and in time and I > also know the area that this file should cover, however I have no idea > regarding the reference for both LAT/LON and RLAT/RLON. > > I tried already tried is ArcGIS to give the Lambert Conformal Conic > projection as the spatial reference, by default arcgis gets the rlat and > rlon for coordinates. however the resulting raster is displaced from were it > should be. > > Can someone help me with this? > > Thanks > > A.R. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ********************** "The contents of this message do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government or NOAA." ********************** Roy Mendelssohn Supervisory Operations Research Analyst NOAA/NMFS Environmental Research Division Southwest Fisheries Science Center 1352 Lighthouse Avenue Pacific Grove, CA 93950-2097 e-mail: roy.mendelss...@noaa.gov (Note new e-mail address) voice: (831)-648-9029 fax: (831)-648-8440 www: http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/ "Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill." "From those who have been given much, much will be expected" ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.