Due to the current gap in continued funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program Center has temporarily paused most operations. See NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations for details.
NCO's ncpdq (http://nco.sf.net/nco.html#ncpdq) will, by default, pack all floats and doubles in an input file into shorts in the output file: ncpdq in.nc out.nc Coordinates (e.g., lat and lon) will not be packed. Followup as per http://nco.sf.net/nco.html#help. HTH, Charlie -- Charlie Zender, Earth System Sci. & Computer Sci. University of California, Irvine 949-891-2429 )'(
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