[Paraview] vector in netcdf files

[Moreland, Kenneth]

Matthias,

There are several netCDF readers. I think the one most relevant to you is
the one that reads the CF convention, which is the most general. This is
listed as "NetCDF files generic and CF conventions".

Unfortunately, it looks like the CF convention does not specify a
mechanism for defining vector fields, so it does not seem directly
supported by the reader. Your best bet for now is to define the components
as separate fields and then using the calculator filter to combine them
into a vector.

-Ken



On 8/19/14 8:50 AM, "Matthias Wiesenberger"
<Matthias.Wiesenberger at uibk.ac.at> wrote:

>Hi guys,
>
>it's probably a simple question, but I can't find any information on the
>web (or I don't know where to look for). How do I write (time-dependent)
>data in netcdf-4 such that paraview recognizes it as a vector field. I
>tried to write it in a single 5-dimensional dataset and also tried to
>write the components seperately but I think I am missing the proper
>attribute names or something. With the 5D array paraview tells me that
>there are too many dimensions and I don't know how to tell paraview that
>three scalar datasets are the components of a vector field.
>Can you help me?
>Best
>Matthias
>
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