Exercise 2: Creating a temperature table at a specific location

Complexity: Beginner Data Requirement: ArcGIS Tutorial Data Setup Data Path: C:\arcgis\ArcTutor\NetCDF Goal: Create a table from a netCDF file.

You'll locate the Make NetCDF Table View tool and create a table view using a variable from a netCDF file. You'll then create a temperature profile from the table. This exercise will take approximately 10 minutes to complete.

Making a netCDF table view

Run the Make NetCDF Table View tool to create a temperature time series table at a specific location using the tmin variable from the temperature.nc netCDF file.

Steps:

1. Open the Make NetCDF Table View tool.

   

2. For the Input netCDF File value, type or browse to C:\NetCDF\temperature.nc.
3. Click the Variables arrow and choose the tmin variable.
4. Type Temperature for Output Table View.
5. Click the Row Dimensions arrow and choose the year dimension.
6. Click the Dimension Values arrow and choose the lon dimension.
7. Click the cell next to lon in the Value column and type -111.75.
8. Click the Dimension Values arrow again and choose the lat dimension.
9. Click the cell next to lat in the Value column and type 45.75.
10. Click OK to run the tool.

    

11. Click the List By Source button in the table of contents to see the Temperature table.

    

12. Right-click Temperature table in the table of contents and click Open.

    

13. Examine fields and values in the Temperature table and close it.

    

14. Click the List By Drawing Order button in the table of contents.

You can create a temperature profile from this table. See A quick tour of creating graphs and The steps to create a graph for more information.