how to get the values from netcdf to ascii format through matlab?

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The data is in .nc form (e.g data.nc). 1) How to extract a grid from this file format? 2) How to find the values of the extracted grid in ascii form?
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Ashish Uthama
Ashish Uthama on 13 Aug 2014
Girija, please say more. Its hard to give a helpful answer since your question does not have enough information. For example - how is the data in the netcdf file structured? Do you have lat /lon and data. Are they 1D 2D or nD? What do you mean by ASCII form? As a variable as a CSV file a text file?
To get started, please have a look at the ncread function.
Gargi
Gargi on 14 Aug 2014
Sir, data is in .nc format (data.nc) (temperature data of two years 1948-1949). Its a global data, ve to extract a grid from that data, and the value should be in ascii (csv ) form. I have to read this data and make a average of January month, February month and so on...of two years.
Sir, this data have longitude, latitude, time, and temperature of one pressure level i.e 1000.

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Chad Greene
Chad Greene on 13 Aug 2014
Check out the names of the variables with ncdisp('data.nc') and if one of the variables is lat, you can load it with
lat = ncread('data.nc','lat');
Then you can write variables to ascii with dlmwrite.
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Chad Greene
Chad Greene on 13 Aug 2014
It is difficult to understand your question. Try to ask a specific question about a specific step that you're having trouble with.

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Supreeth Subbaraya
Supreeth Subbaraya on 14 Aug 2014
Take a look at the function ncread. Here you can specify the indices of the starting location of a variable and the number of elements to be read. If a variavle "var" is a two dimensional variable, then you can use the following line of code:
ncread('data.nc','var',[1, 1], [1,1])

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