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I see that coordinate variable data is stored in HDF5 dimension scale datasets, and that each ordinary variable is bound to one or more of these datasets through the HDF5 dimension scale mechanism. Evidently netCDF-4 variables are aware of both their named dimensions (expected) and any associated coordinates (unexpected). The netCDF documents state that coordinate variables are a convention, and 'have no special meaning to the netCDF library'. But evidently the association is fully defined at storage level in netCDF-4/HDF5 files. Is there an API to access this useful information? Apologies if I'm missing something here. Also the scope of the dimension to coordinate variable association isn't clear to me - I haven't found anything to explain it. I'm picturing a tree of groups with dimensions and coordinate variables in various places in it, perhaps with duplicate naming (eg repetition of a subtree). What is the scoping rule? Regards John -- John Storrs, Experiments Dept e-mail: john.storrs@xxxxxxxxxxxx Building D3, UKAEA Fusion tel: 01235 466338 Culham Science Centre fax: 01235 466379 Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3DB http://www.fusion.org.uk
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