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8.7 Missing Data Values
To indicate that data values are missing, invalid, or not written, special values are conventionally used.

Since netCDF data can be written in random order, there may be values that are not written, either intentionally or inadvertently. To detect attempts to later read unwritten data, the netCDF library initializes data with either

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