PB2NC Tool: Output

When PB2NC is finished, you may view the output NetCDF file it wrote using the ncdump utility (if available on your machine). Run the following command to view the header of the NetCDF output file:

ncdump -h tutorial/out/pb2nc/tutorial_pb.nc

In the NetCDF header, you'll see that the file contains 5 arrays of data. The obs_arr array contains the actual observation values while the 4 hdr_ type arrays contain information about the observing locations. See the comments in the ncdump output for more details.