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3.1 Creating New Files and Metadata, an Overview

To construct a netCDF file you need to:

create the file
Specify the name, optionally the format: classic (the default) or 64bit-offset.
define metadata
Specify the names and types of dimensions, data variables, and attributes.
write data
Write arrays of data from program variables to the netCDF file. Arrays of data may be written all at once, or in subsets.
close the file
Close the file to flush all buffers to the disk and free all resources allocated for this file.
 
 
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