1. Introduction

QGIS supports reading and visualising NetCDF data as raster or mesh layers. You can also export layers in a NetCDF to other raster formats, such as GeoTIFF.

In this tutorial you'll learn to:

  • Load NetCDF raster data in QGIS
  • Style NetCDF raster data
  • Animate temporal NetCDF rasters (only in QGIS 3.38 or newer)
  • Export NetCDF raster data to GeoTIFF
  • Load NetCDF as mesh
  • Style NetCDF mesh
  • Export time series values from points

For the tutorial you can use a et_look_out.nc file produced with PyWaPOR.