How to open a NetCDF file

In this video, we will open a NetCDF file in Python, understand what is inside, and learn to read the data and metadata.

# Chapters
00:00 Introduction to the course
02:11 Installing and importing modules
03:41 Opening a NetCDF file with xarray
04:35 Introducing OPeNDAP
05:31 Understanding the contents of a NetCDF file
07:20 Global attributes (metadata describing the whole file)
09:47 Attribute Convention for Data Discovery (ACDD)
10:34 The Climate & Forecast Conventions (CF)
11:44 Dimensions
12:24 Coordinate variables
12:52 Data variables

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[UnParalleled_]

Thanks for the video! This is very helpful!

[csmaster]

This is very technical and interesting. I am on a journey to learn how to present historical wave data graphically as a map overlay using WW3 or NORA10. Unfortunately I do not posses the tools or the skills to do this yet, but hopefully this series will help.

[anamariacarvalho]

Hi Luke, I am Ana from Brasil.
Would you please make a vídeo about OPENDAP?

[juhidhuriya]

Thank you for this detailed video on how to read a netcdf file. I'm using GSMaP precipitation data which is in .dat file format can you make a video on how to convert such files into netcdf file. Thank you!

[chathupremachandra]

Thanks for the video. But how to read separate nc file in the computer?

[carolinaalonso]

Amazing video. Thank you!
How do I fix this problem: AttributeError: partially initialized module 'xarray' has no attribute 'open_dataset' (most likely due to a circular import)?

[Juan_Tala]

Hi Luke, how are you dude? Excuse me, I'm trying to see a .nc from Modis Aqua satellite for to get the chlorophyll concentration with Python, I'm follow your steps but the file doesn't show the variables, it's empty. Do you have some video about this situation?

[chasesmith]

how do i fix the problem when it says no module ‘xarray’