Loading...
Searching...
No Matches
simple_xy_wr.c
Go to the documentation of this file.
/* Copyright 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002,
2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014,
2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 University Corporation for Atmospheric
Research/Unidata. See COPYRIGHT file for conditions of use. */
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <netcdf.h>
/* This is the name of the data file we will create. */
#define FILE_NAME "simple_xy.nc"
/* We are writing 2D data, a 6 x 12 grid. */
#define NDIMS 2
#define NX 6
#define NY 12
/* Handle errors by printing an error message and exiting with a
* non-zero status. */
#define ERRCODE 2
#define ERR(e) {printf("Error: %s\n", nc_strerror(e)); exit(ERRCODE);}
int
main()
{
/* When we create netCDF variables and dimensions, we get back an
* ID for each one. */
int ncid, x_dimid, y_dimid, varid;
int dimids[NDIMS];
/* This is the data array we will write. It will be filled with a
* progression of numbers for this example. */
int data_out[NX][NY];
/* Loop indexes, and error handling. */
int x, y, retval;
/* Create some pretend data. If this wasn't an example program, we
* would have some real data to write, for example, model
* output. */
for (x = 0; x < NX; x++)
for (y = 0; y < NY; y++)
data_out[x][y] = x * NY + y;
/* Always check the return code of every netCDF function call. In
* this example program, any retval which is not equal to NC_NOERR
* (0) will cause the program to print an error message and exit
* with a non-zero return code. */
/* Create the file. The NC_CLOBBER parameter tells netCDF to
* overwrite this file, if it already exists.*/
if ((retval = nc_create(FILE_NAME, NC_CLOBBER, &ncid)))
ERR(retval);
/* Define the dimensions. NetCDF will hand back an ID for each. */
if ((retval = nc_def_dim(ncid, "x", NX, &x_dimid)))
ERR(retval);
if ((retval = nc_def_dim(ncid, "y", NY, &y_dimid)))
ERR(retval);
/* The dimids array is used to pass the IDs of the dimensions of
* the variable. */
dimids[0] = x_dimid;
dimids[1] = y_dimid;
/* Define the variable. The type of the variable in this case is
* NC_INT (4-byte integer). */
if ((retval = nc_def_var(ncid, "data", NC_INT, NDIMS,
dimids, &varid)))
ERR(retval);
/* End define mode. This tells netCDF we are done defining
* metadata. */
if ((retval = nc_enddef(ncid)))
ERR(retval);
/* Write the pretend data to the file. Although netCDF supports
* reading and writing subsets of data, in this case we write all
* the data in one operation. */
if ((retval = nc_put_var_int(ncid, varid, &data_out[0][0])))
ERR(retval);
/* Close the file. This frees up any internal netCDF resources
* associated with the file, and flushes any buffers. */
if ((retval = nc_close(ncid)))
ERR(retval);
printf("*** SUCCESS writing example file simple_xy.nc!\n");
return 0;
}
nc_close
EXTERNL int nc_close(int ncid)
Close an open netCDF dataset.
Definition dfile.c:1330
nc_create
EXTERNL int nc_create(const char *path, int cmode, int *ncidp)
Create a new netCDF file.
Definition dfile.c:428
nc_enddef
EXTERNL int nc_enddef(int ncid)
Leave define mode.
Definition dfile.c:1057
nc_def_dim
EXTERNL int nc_def_dim(int ncid, const char *name, size_t len, int *idp)
Define a new dimension.
Definition ddim.c:121
nc_def_var
EXTERNL int nc_def_var(int ncid, const char *name, nc_type xtype, int ndims, const int *dimidsp, int *varidp)
Define a new variable.
Definition dvar.c:216
netcdf.h
Main header file for the C API.
NC_INT
#define NC_INT
signed 4 byte integer
Definition netcdf.h:38
NC_CLOBBER
#define NC_CLOBBER
Destroy existing file.
Definition netcdf.h:138