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How do I work with SMAP L2B data in HDF5 format?

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How do I work with SMAP L2B data in HDF5 format?

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The NetCDF library includes a utility called 'nccopy' that can read and convert HDF-5 datasets.  The SMAP L2B distributed by NASA JPL can be converted by using this utility:

nccopy <h5 infile> <netcdf4 outfile>

nccopy SMAP_L2B_SSS_45521_0230810T015327_R18290_V5.0.h5 SMAP_L2B_SSS_45521_0230810T015327_R18290_V5.0.nc

 

UCAR unidata supports and maintains the NetCDF distribution and programming interfaces for C, C++, Java, Fortran, Python, IDL, MATLAB, R, Ruby, and Perl.  More information can be found at their website (external to NOAA):  https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/

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