Tutorial 4: NetCDF in QGIS: Introduction

In this tutorial you'll learn to use QGIS to read and visualise NetCDF data as raster or mesh layers. The data for this tutorial can be accessed here

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.