NCO (netCDF Operators) is a suite of command-line programs for manipulating and analysing data stored in netCDF-accessible formats.
The tools take netCDF, HDF and DAP files as input and can derive new data, compute statistics, extract subsets, manipulate metadata and output results in text, binary or netCDF formats. NCO is particularly suited to analysing gridded scientific data.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Manipulate and analyse netCDF-accessible data.
- Work with netCDF, HDF4, HDF5 and DAP data.
- Derive new data and compute statistics.
- Extract hyperslabs from datasets.
- Manipulate attributes and other metadata.
- Concatenate and average records and ensembles.
- Interpolate and remap data.
- Work with hierarchical as well as traditional flat datasets.
- Use interactively from the command line or in shell scripts.
- Support Climate and Forecast metadata conventions.
Website: github.com/nco/nco
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Developer: Charlie Zender
License: BSD 3-clause “New” or “Revised” license
NCO is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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