Changeset 1467 in lmdz_wrf for trunk

Timestamp:

Mar 9, 2017, 9:50:54 AM (8 years ago)

Author:

lfita

Message:

Adding:

`get_varunits': Getting the units of a variable object

File:

• trunk/tools/nc_var_tools.py (modified) (2 diffs)

trunk/tools/nc_var_tools.py

@@ -74 +74 @@
 # get_Variables: Function to get a list of variables from an existing file
 # getvalues_lonlat: Function to retrieve the values from the closest grid point to a set of longitude, latitude values
+# get_varunits: Getting the units of a variable object
 # getvars_tofile: Function to get variables from a file and pass them to another one
 # grattr: Function to read a global atribute
@@ -19045 +19046 @@
     return arrayvalues
 
+def get_varunits(ovar):
+    """ Getting the units of a variable object
+      ovar: object variable from which get the units
+    """
+    fname = 'get_varunits'
+
+    varattrs = ovar.ncattrs()
+    if gen.searchInlist(varattrs,'units'):
+        varunits = ovar.units
+    else:
+        varunits = gen.variables_values(ovar.name)[5]
+
+    return varunits
+
 #quit()