Might be worth investigating this package? https://github.com/jacobwilliams/json-fortran Craig > On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 14:55:22 -0700 Rick Brownrigg <brownrig at ucar.edu> wrote: > > There is no capability to read JSON built directly into NCL. Suppose it > could be done using the asciiread and string facilities, but wow, that > would be tedious. > > Rick