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Am Freitag, 16. Mai 2003 19:14 schrieb John Caron:
> > Ok it is no bug but if someone is using this then the resulting data
> > file is'nt described by the standard rules of netCDF.
> >
> > Reimar
>
> appendix B of netcdf manual shows the file format spec, which has:
>
> attr := name nc_type nelems [values]
>
> see
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/guidec/guidec-18.html#HEADING18
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Yes it's all correct but the difference to the variables is thats the reader
of the data has no idea how long the vector is. If the vector is defined as a
netCDF variable we have to look first at the belonging dimension name and we
are able to read it's length.
This means the data type, length and dimension are described with variables in
the file. By a vector as attribute there is no rule given.
Reimar
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