theres a few bugs in the documentation, but this should work to dump 
coordinates:
 java -classpath toolsUI.jar ucar.nc2.NCdump <filename> -ncml -c
use the toolsUI jar, since it has everything you need in it.
Ethan Davis wrote:
Hi Stephen,
Stephen Sinnis wrote:
If I use the NcML tab in JAVA NetCDF (2.2) Tools and turn Coordinates 
ON, I
can get an XML dump describing the 80km CONUS NAM, (as described below). 
Is there a command line equivalent of this?
  
The NcML web page (http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/ncml/) 
describes a number of ways to dump the NcML for a dataset: 1) Tools UI, 
2) using the netCDF-Java API, 3) netCDF-Java NcDump, and 4) netCDF C 
library ncdump, version 3.6.1 or later. I would guess that the 
Coordinates ON option is not supported by the last option. Also, not 
sure how to specify the Coordinates info in option 3.
How should I include this information for use in an enhanced catalog?
  
Do you mean how should it be encoded in an enhanced catalog? Or what is 
the best way to get this information into an enhanced catalog?
Also, is it the variable information you want to include in an enhanced 
catalog or the coordinate information?
Thanks,
Ethan
Stephen Sinnis
Pelmorex Media Inc
  
DETAILS:
  <variable name="x" shape="x" type="double">
    <attribute name="units" type="String" value="km" />
    <attribute name="long_name" type="String" value="synthesized X 
coord" />
    <attribute name="_CoordinateAxisType" type="String" value="GeoX" />
    <values start="-4226.106971141345" increment="81.27099999999973"
npts="93" />
  </variable>
  <variable name="y" shape="y" type="double">
    <attribute name="units" type="String" value="km" />
    <attribute name="long_name" type="String" value="synthesized Y 
coord" />
    <attribute name="_CoordinateAxisType" type="String" value="GeoY" />
    <values start="-832.6983183345455" increment="81.27099999999996"
npts="65" />
  </variable>
  <variable name="Projection" type="char">
    <attribute name="Projection_Name" type="String"
value="lambert_conformal_conic" />
    <attribute name="latitude_of_projection_origin" type="double"
value="25.0" />
    <attribute name="longitude_of_central_meridian" type="double"
value="-95.0" />
    <attribute name="standard_parallel" type="double" value="25.0" />
    <attribute name="_CoordinateTransformType" type="String"
value="Projection" />
    <attribute name="_CoordinateAxes" type="String" value="x y" />
    <values />
  </variable>
I have installed:
Linux 2.6.17-1.2157_FC5
TOMCAT 5.17 JDK1.5.0_07
THREDDS-3.12
toolsUI-2.2.16
I am feeding NOAAPORT HDS|NGRID data to GEMPAK 5.9.1 gribtonc:
#
# ETA grid on Lambert conformal CONUS grid
HDS     ^Y.Q... KWB. (..)(..).*/m(ETA|NAM)
        PIPE    decoders/gribtonc -l logs/gribtonc_nam.log
        etc/eta_211.cdl
 
data/pub/decoded/netcdf/grid/NCEP/NAM/CONUS_80km/NAM_CONUS_80km_(\1:yyyy)(\1 
:mm)\1_\200.nc
#
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