[ncl-talk] How to Convert binary Mask to NetCDF

[Dr. Avinash Kumar]

Dear All
I would be very much grateful if anyone can make a masking file in netcdf
file using the region_n.msk: 448 rows x 304 columns [binary file]. The
details are given in below link. Further, this Netcdf file can be used to
mask any netcdf file based on our required regions.

Region Masks
http://nsidc.org/data/polar_stereo/tools_masks.html

Region masks for the Northern (n). The files contain a 300-byte header,
followed by a two-dimensional byte array stored by rows in column order.
Regions are assigned different pixel values as shown in the following table.

*region_n.msk: 448 rows x 304 columns [ATTACHED FOR KIND REFERENCE]*
Grided mask map:JPG [ATTACHED FOR KIND REFERENCE]

Pixel Value Arctic Region
1 Non-regional ocean
2 Sea of Okhotsk and Japan
3 Bering Sea
4 Hudson Bay
5 Baffin Bay/Davis Strait/Labrador Sea
6 Greenland Sea
7 Kara and Barents Seas
8 Arctic Ocean
9 Canadian Archipelago
10 Gulf of St. Lawrence
11 Land
12 Coast
0 Lakes, extended coast

Thanking you and eagerly waiting for help from anyone.

Kind Regards
Avinash
*Dr. Avinash Kumar **| **Scientist 'C' *
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