How to visualize a map from a netcdf file?

Question

I have a netcdf file that I would like to just visualize the soil depth map

   [1] \"file C:\\\\Users\\\\SoilDepth-gswp.nc has 3 dimensions:\"
     [1] \"x           


        

Answer 1

For quickly looking at files you can use ncview. The maps are not particularly pretty, but very functional for getting an idea of what a given file looks like. Also this works easily on remote servers.

See here: http://meteora.ucsd.edu/~pierce/ncview_home_page.html