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5.8 Another Simple Example
In this example, a simple data file is examined with ncdump, showing its dimensions, variables, and attributes as CDL.

Let's look at the dimensions, variables, and attributes from the netCDF file co2.nc:

ncdump -h co2.nc
netcdf co2 {
dimensions:
	T = 456 ;
variables:
	float T(T) ;
		T:units = "months since 1960-01-01" ;
	float co2(T) ;
		co2:long_name = "CO2 concentration by volume" ;
		co2:units = "1.0e-6" ;
		co2:_FillValue = -99.99f ;

// global attributes:
		:references = "Keeling_etal1996, Keeling_etal1995" ;
  }

 


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