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11.9 Missing Data Values
To indicate that data values are missing, invalid, or not written, special values are conventionally used.

NetCDF data may include variable values that are not written, either on purpose or unintentionally. To detect attempts to later read unwritten data, the netCDF library initializes data with either

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