Hi Eli, The Fortran-90 interface of netCDF-3 supports only character arrays rather than Fortran-90 strings, so you have to treat your one-dimensional array of strings as a two-dimensional array of characters instead, unfortunately. See this documentation on writing strings in the Fortran-90 interface for netCDF: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf/docs/netcdf-f90.html#Reading-and-Writing-Character-String-Values --Russ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: ENM-966454 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Closed