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Aidan, NetCDF4 and netCDF4 Classic, actually *all* of the format variations, are intended to present a uniform and seamless interface to the user, unless advanced features are used. I am curious about your reasons for wanting to convert. I wonder whether you have run into the same issues I have hit, application software that changes behavior in a format sensitive way when reading. Sorry to distract from your real question. --Dave On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Aidan Heerdegen <aidan.heerdegen@xxxxxxxxxx > wrote: > Hi, > > We've got a LOT of data in netCDF4 format that we think, for a few reasons, > we would probably like in netCDF4 Classic Model format. > > The data itself does not require any of the added features of netCDF4. > > Converting it all with nccopy would take a very very long time. I have a > suspicion that under the hood there will be very little different between > the files. I've done a test with a 400Mb test file, there are only 168 > bytes > different between the netcdf4 and netcdf4-classic versions of the data. > > Is there a smart/fast/safe way to convert netCDF4 data "in-place" to > netCDF4-classic? > > Thanks > > Aidan >
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