How to convert a NetCDF file TIFF to import in QGIS 3.x
NetCDF is a data format and library designed to store multidimensional arrays of scientific data. If you try to load it in Qgis, probably you will get the following message: Invalid Layer: GDAL provider Cannot open GDAL dataset file.nc' not recognized as a supported file format. Raster layer Provider is not valid (provider: gdal, URI: file.nc In QGIS 2.x you can use NetCDF plugin to load the layer, but it not exist yet in QGIS 3.x To import the layer you need to convert the .nc file to another like .tiff To do it, you can use gdal toolkit as follows: gdal_translate file.nc file.tiff Warning 1: No UNIDATA NC_GLOBAL:Conventions attribute Input file contains subdatasets. Please, select one of them for reading. This issue is because the .nc contains subdatasets and you must specify only one. To see the subdatasets names just execute the following sentence in your terminal: gdalinfo file.nc Subdatasets: SUBDATASET_1_NAME=NETCDF:"FWI.GPM.LATE.v5.Monthly.Defau...