Extracting individual maps from netCDF files

I am reading in a netCDF file which contains a wave height map every three hours over 1 month. Does anyone have any ideas about how I might plot induvidual maps to show the wave heights at every three hour timestep? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

[Ashish Uthama]

What is the size of the variable? ( ncdisp might help).

If you have enough memory on your machine, just read in the the full variable and loop over the time dimension. Or if the variable is large, you can use the partial read facility of ncread in a loop.