Chapter 5. NCO Utilities Clients

Table of Contents

Overview
IMCS Installations
NCKS

Overview

NCO Utilities are a set of programs that constitute something like a swiss army knife of NetCDF file utilties. Basically they allow one to manipulate a portion of a netcdf file (or DODS url) and save the results to a local netcdf file.

  • ncap: netCDF Arithmetic Processor

  • ncatted: netCDF Attribute Editor

  • ncdiff: netCDF Differencer

  • ncea: netCDF Ensemble Averager

  • ncecat: netCDF Ensemble Concatenator

  • ncks: netCDF Kitchen Sink. This is the most important one for DODS use.

  • ncpdq: netCDF Permute Dimensions Quickly, Pack Data Quietly...

  • ncrcat: netCDF Record Concatenator. Cannot be used with OPeNDAP datasets, but it is extremely useful for local datasets with unlimited dimensions.

  • ncrcat: netCDF Record Averager

  • ncrcat: netCDF Renamer

  • ncwa: netCDF Weighted Averager