Netcdf Gurus,
This is I think a simple question, but I want to make sure I know the
reason. Namely, diagnostic output in our model seems to always be
written in alphabetical order even if, I think[1], the nf90_def_var
calls are not done in alphabetical order (because the HISTORY files that
define the collections do not have the variables in order, and we just
iterate over those names).
Now, we are using a netCDF that was built against HDF5 1.8.x (even with
--enable-parallel, but these files are not open/created with _PAR). Is
it because of that that we get alphabetical order, because of statements
I see like:
Without creation order in the HDF5 file, the files will still be readable to
netCDF-4, it's just that netCDF-4 will number the variables in alphabetical,
rather than creation, order.
in the docs?
Just a puzzle I'm wondering about.
Matt
[1] Note: I *think* they are not sorted in the Fortran code. I see
nothing saying to do so. This is not code I maintain.
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