Partial Information Formats
These files contain only some of the available metadata. |
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Columnar Table
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A table with separate columns of numbers for each independent variable (i.e., grids) and for the data.
This is an inefficient format, so you would have gotten a file for dataset of this size.
This file will be approximately 1692057600 bytes, with
4 columns of 105753600 numbers.
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2-Dimensional Tab-Separated Tables
- Y X Table
- X Y Table
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Tab-separated-values (tsv) file with information about the independent variables (i.e., grids).
The list to the left allows you to specify the format of the table. Note: The variable running across the top of
the table (identifing columns) is listed first and the variable running down the side of the table
(identifing rows) is listed second.
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GIS-Compatible Formats
There are three GIS-compatible formats available. |
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2-Dimensional Table
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A 2-dimensional ascii file that includes an ArcInfo Header. |
| IDA Image |
File(s) in the Image Display and Analysis format. Typically used with WinDisp.
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| LAN Image |
File(s) in the ERDAS LAN format. Typically used with various GIS programs, including ArcView and HealthMapper.
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Data Only Formats
These files contain just the data without any of the available metadata. |
| Binary direct access |
A big-endian, ieee single-precision file in floating-point format. Also known as a binary random access file. This is a random-access file; it is purely data with no record-structuring information. The data is
structured to correspond to the independent variables (i.e., grids) in X Y T order, with the first grid
varying the fastest. |
| DEC ALPHA direct access |
Same as the binary random/direct access format above except that it is byte-swapped for DEC ALPHA's and PC's (little-endian). |
| Binary FORTRAN sequential access |
A big-endian, ieee, single-precision file in floating-point format. This is a sequential-access file with each
record containing all the X Y points. It must be read using FORTRAN sequential access.
Records correspond to T.
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| DEC ALPHA sequential access |
Same as the binary sequential access format above except that it is byte-swapped for DEC ALPHA's and PC's (little-endian). |
| Text with tab-separated-values |
Text file where data values corresponding to different X
are separated by tabs and data values corresponding to different
Y T are on different lines. This is readable by most programs, including spreadsheets, but will be about four times larger than the binary or netCDF/HDF files noted above.
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| Text |
Text file where data is arranged in chunks of
X Y. There are five values per line and each chunk
starts on a new line. This will
be about four times larger than the binary or netCDF/HDF files.
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